Defense Mechanisms

Question 1

Repeating certain actions to ward off anxiety without weighing the possible consequences

Answer 1

Acting Out

Question 2

Substitution; trying to make up for feelings of adequacy

Answer 2

Compensation

Question 3

Protects oneself from reality

Answer 3

Denial

Question 3

Daydreaming as a way of escaping pressures

Answer 3

Fantasy

Question 4

Redirect impulses to a safer and/or innocent person

Answer 4

Displacement

Question 5

Unconsciously adopts personality or characteristics of someone else to allay anxiety

Answer 5

Identification

Question 6

Isolation; under a facade of big words, pretending there is no problem

Answer 6

Intellectualization

Question 7

Adopts someone else’s values and standards without reason, without exploring whether they fit him/her

Answer 7

Introjection

Question 8

Blaming others for own fault

Answer 8

Projection

Question 9

Not blaming others but gives acceptable reason

Answer 9

Rationalization

Question 10

Person behaves the opposite of the way he feels

Answer 10

Reaction Formation

Question 11

Returning to earlier stages of development when under stress

Answer 11

Regression

Question 12

Unconsciously blocking out painful or acceptable thoughts/feelings; trying to forget and very painful

Answer 12

Repression

Question 13

Transform unacceptable needs to acceptable ambitions or actions

Answer 13

Sublimation

Question 14

Tries to undo the harm he feels he has done to others

Answer 14

Undoing