Defense Mechanism

Question 0

Repression

Answer 0

Painful feelings are conscious initially and then forgotten, but may return occasionally. Ranges from momentary memory lapses to forgetting the details of a catastrophic event

Question 1

Denial

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Suppression

Answer 2

Unpleasant feelings are suppressed through a conscious effort ito ignore them. Feelings are deliberately ignored. Considered one of the more mature and healthy defense mechanism.

Question 3

Projection

Answer 3

Undesirable feelings are attributed to another person

Question 4

Displacement

Answer 4

Redirecting your negative emotions onto a less threatening stimulus

Question 5

Reaction Formation

Answer 5

Behaving in a completely different way than one feels. Reduces anxiety by taking up the opposite feelings.

Question 6

Regression

Answer 6

When confronted with stress, people revert back to patterns of behavior uses earlier in development / at a younger age

Question 7

Fixation

Answer 7

With an oral fixation, when faced with stress, they bite nails, drink, smoke

Question 8

Identification

Answer 8

Taking on the characteristics of someone else

Question 9

Rationalization

Answer 9

An attempt to deny one’s true motive by using a reason that is more log ail or socially acceptable than one’s own reasons

Question 10

Isolation

Answer 10

Compartmentalizing one’s experience so that an event becomes separated from the feelings that are associated with it, allowing it to be part of your conscious mind without the threat of painful feelings

Question 11

Sublimation

Answer 11

Involves rechanneling the energy connected with an unacceptable impulse into one that is more socially acceptable

Question 12

Compensation

Answer 12

Devoting unusual efforts to achievement in order to overcome feelings of inferiority