Ego Defense Mechanism Quiz

Avoidance of disagreeable reality by ignoring or refusing to recognize it

• Denials

• Denial II

• Denial

• Denying

• Reality Denial

An accident victim can remember nothing about his accident.

• Suppression

• Regression

• Repression

• Reaction Formation

Transferring painful feeling to a neutral object

• Projection

• Displacement

• Introjection

• Undoing

Attributing our own thoughts or impulses to another person

• Displacement

• Reaction Formation

• Introjection

• Projection

An attempt to avoid expressing actual emotions associated with a stressful situation by using the processes of logic and analysis

• Intellectualization

• Rationalization

• Isolation

• Repression

Preventing unacceptable or undesirable thoughts or behaviors from being expressed by exaggerating OPPOSITE thoughts or behaviors

• Rationalization

• Suppression

• Undoing

• Reaction Formation

Returning to an early level of emotional development.

• Suppression

• Regression

• Repression

• Undoing

Involuntarily blocking unpleasant feelings and experiences from one’s awareness

• Undoing

• Suppression

• Sublimation

• Repression

A COMPULSIVE response that negates a previous unacceptable act

• Sublimation

• Reaction formation

• Undoing

• Conflict

Attempting to make excuses or formulate logical reasons to justify unacceptable impulses, feelings or behaviors

• Intellectualization

• Rationalization

• Sublimation

• Denial