Defense Mechanisms

Question 0

Repression

Answer 0

Forgetting the details of a really bad car accident

Question 1

Denial

Answer 1

A child who is told that her parents are divorcing may deny that it is happening or deny that she is upset about it

Question 2

Suppression

Answer 2

Fears can be replaced by thinking of a happy place, time, or event

Question 3

Projection

Answer 3

An angry person believes others are angry at him/her a person who is critical of others believes they are critical of him/her

Question 4

Displacement

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Reaction formation

Answer 5

Treating someone you strongly dislike in an excessively friendly manner in order to hide your true feelings

Question 6

Regression

Answer 6

What 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

Question 9

Rationalizing

Answer 9

if a person says I don’t care if I wasn’t chosen for the team,

Question 10

Isolation

Answer 10

Reading about the grieving process after a parents death

Question 11

Sublimation

Answer 11

Channeling aggressive tendencies into playing contact sports

Question 12

Compensation

Answer 12

A young boy has polio and can play sports so he plays guitar