defense mechanisms

Our ego protects us from threatening thoughts in our unconscious is by using

Refusal to accept the true nature of a threat.

• rationalization

• projection

• denial

• regression

A hungry baby crying until he was fed is an example of what?

• Id

• Ego

• Superego

• Superid

Read the following description and select the defense mechanism it describes:

When you use this defense mechanism, you may kick your dog because you are angry at your parents. 

• Projection
• Repression
• Displacement
• Rationalization

Diverts impulses from a threatening individual to a less threatening one.

• repression

• scapegoat

• projection

• displacement

According to Freud, this part of the mind was not directly accessible to awareness and was considered as the dump box.

• conscious

• preconscious

• unconscious

• anconscious

The patterns of feelings, motives, and behavior that set people apart from one another.

• Trait

• Ego

• Personality

• Id

Defense mechanism by which people redirect socially unacceptable desires, thoughts and urges thru socially acceptable behaviors.

• Sublimation
• Displacement
• Projection
• Denial

Id is to ego as __________ is to ______________.

• pleasure principle; reality principle
• reality principle; morality principle
• pleasure principle; morality principle
• Identification; Oedipus Complex

Freudian component of personality that mediates the urges of the id and superego.

• Ego
• Id
• Superego
• Super Id