Defense Mechanism

Question 0

Repression

Answer 0

Painful feelings are conscious initially and then forgotten, but return occasionally. Repression can range from momentary memory lapses to forgetting the details of a catastrophic event, such as a murder or an earthquake

Question 1

Denial

Answer 1

Unpleasant reality is ignored, and a realistic interpretation of potentially threatening events are replaced by benign but inaccurate ones

Question 2

Suppression

Answer 2

Unpleasant feelings are suppressed through a conscious effort to ignore them

Question 3

Projection

Answer 3

The undesirable feelings are attributed to another person(s)

Question 4

Displacement

Answer 4

Involves taking out our frustrations, feelings and impulses on people or objects that are less threatening

Question 5

Reaction formation

Answer 5

Reduces anxiety by taking up the opposite feeling, impulse or behavior. Treating someone you strongly dislike in an excessively friendly manner in order to hide your true feelings

Question 6

Regression

Answer 6

When confronted by stressful events, people sometimes abandon coping strategies and revert to patterns of behavior used earlier in development

Question 7

Fixation

Answer 7

People with an oral fixation have problems with drinking, smoking, and nail biting when they are experiencing stressful events

Question 8

Identification

Answer 8

Taking on characteristics of someone important- parents, sports, celebrity, etc.

Question 9

Rationalization

Answer 9

If a person says “I don’t care if I wasn’t chosen for the team; I didn’t really want to play anyway”

Question 10

Isolation

Answer 10

Reading about the grieving process after a parents death or reacting in an expected way

Question 11

Sublimation

Answer 11

Channeling aggressive tendencies into playing contact sports

Question 12

Compensation

Answer 12

A young person becomes physically disabled and compensates by working hard academically and becomes a doctor.