Defense Mechanisms Quiz

What are defense mechanisms?

• Conscious responses that protect people from anxiety

• Unconscious responses that protect people from anxiety

• Conscious responses that cause anxiety

• Unconscious responses that cause anxiety

Who first described defense mechanisms?

• Anna Freud

• Carl Jung

• Sigmund Freud

• Abraham Maslow

Which defense mechanism involves taking out frustrations on people or objects that are less threatening?

• Displacement

• Denial

• Rationalization

• Regression

Which defense mechanism involves an outright refusal to admit or recognize that something has occurred or is currently occurring?

• Displacement

• Denial

• Rationalization

• Regression

Which defense mechanism involves keeping information out of conscious awareness?

• Repression

• Suppression

• Sublimation

• Projection

Which defense mechanism involves converting unacceptable impulses into more acceptable outlets?

• Displacement

• Denial

• Sublimation

• Regression

Which defense mechanism involves taking your own unacceptable qualities or feelings and ascribing them to other people?

• Projection

• Intellectualization

• Rationalization

• Reaction Formation

Which defense mechanism involves replacing an unwanted impulse with its opposite?

• Displacement

• Denial

• Reaction Formation

• Suppression

Which defense mechanism involves thinking about stressful things in a clinical way?

• Rationalization

• Intellectualization

• Projection

• Sublimation

Which defense mechanism involves reverting to earlier behaviors?

• Displacement

• Denial

• Regression

• Suppression