Freud and Defense Mechanisms Review

You emphasize strength in one area to shift focus from failure in another area?

• displacement

• compensation

• projection

• reaction formation

You replace socially unacceptable feelings with emotions that are acceptable.

• rationalization

• intellectualization

• reaction formation

• repression

refusal to accept an obvious situation

• displacement

• denial

• sublimation

• repression

Making logical excuses for illogical behavior

• intellectualization

• reaction formation

• rationalization

• sublimation

Taking out one's anger on an object that is not the source of the anger

• projection

• displacement

• reaction formation

• repression

blaming another person for the feelings you have

• displacement

• denial

• projection

• regression

associating with people of a higher status to increase your status

• intellectualization

• identification

• sublimation

• reaction formation

describing painful events in philosophical terms

• rationalization

• sublimation

• intellectualization

• identification

acting in a childlike way to get attention

• repression

• regression

• displacement

• projection

unconsciously forgetting information that is too painful to recall

• repression

• regression

• rationalization

• identification