G-Defense Mechanisms

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What are defense mechanisms?

• Strategies to overcome physical stress
• Psychological strategies to cope with emotional discomfort
• Conscious techniques to deal with anxiety
• Mechanisms to protect the ego from reality

Which defense mechanism involves refusing to accept reality?

• Intellectualization
• Projection
• Regression
• Denial

What does projection involve?

• Attributing one's own feelings to others
• Redirecting emotions onto a safer target
• Focusing excessively on facts and logic
• Creating logical explanations for behaviors

Which defense mechanism involves reverting to earlier stages of development?

• Undoing
• Compensation
• Displacement
• Regression

What does displacement involve?

• Taking on characteristics of someone else
• Expressing the opposite of one's true feelings
• Redirecting emotions onto a safer target
• Pushing distressing thoughts out of awareness

Which defense mechanism involves channeling unacceptable impulses into socially acceptable outlets?

• Sublimation
• Conversion
• Suppression
• Identification

What does repression involve?

• Expressing the opposite of one's true feelings
• Unconsciously pushing distressing thoughts out of awareness
• Taking on characteristics of someone else
• Creating logical explanations for behaviors