Defense Mechanisms 2

Defense mechanisms are behaviors that an individual might use to cope with an uncomfortable situation or problem.

• True

• False

This is when a person tries to make up for his/her weaknesses by developing strengths in other areas?

• Denial

• Humor

• Compensation

• Day Dreaming

Refusal to accept reality is what?

• Projection

• Compensation

• Denial

• Regression

A person transfers the emotions he or she feels from the original situation or object to another situation or object?

• Daydreaming

• Denial

• Projection

• Displacement

A person shifts the blame and/or responsibility for his/her actions or thoughts to another person?

• Projection

• Compensation

• Regression

• Repression

An attempt to justify one’s actions with an excuse rather than by admitting one’s failure or mistake?

• Denial

• Repression

• Regression

• Rationalization

Retreating to an earlier time that seems less threatening and requires less responsibility?

• Regression

• Rationalization

• Repression

• Compensation

 Mrs. Brown often accuses other women of talking too much and spreading rumors. It is rather obvious to those who know her that she is revealing her own inclinations in that area.

• sublimation
• reaction formation
• denial
• projection

 Regina, an aggressive child, had problems in elementary school, as she would frequently fight with other children. Regina found when she entered high school that she could channel this hostility into sports such as lacrosse and soccer.

• projection
• sublimation
• repression
• regression

The girl who was not invited to the school dance told her friends that she would not have attended if asked. She said that her teachers had assigned more homework than usual and that she was simply too busy for any unimportant social functions.

• denial
• projection
• rationalization
• sublimation