Defense Mechanisms Quiz

Which defense mechanism involves avoiding awareness of painful aspects of reality?

• Projection

• Denial

• Regression

• Intellectualization

What is the term for reshaping the experience of external reality to suit inner needs?

• Distortion

• Splitting

• Acting out

• Displacement

Attributing your own wishes, thoughts, or feelings onto someone else is known as what?

• Introjection

• Projection

• Rationalization

• Sublimation

What defense mechanism involves dividing external objects into all good or all bad?

• Splitting

• Blocking

• Isolation

• Undoing

Which defense mechanism is characterized by a behavioral or emotional outburst?

• Acting out

• Regression

• Suppression

• Asceticism

What is the term for a temporary block in thinking?

• Blocking

• Inhibition

• Repression

• Reaction formation

Which defense mechanism involves a person believing they have special powers and abilities?

• Distortion

• Denial

• Projection

• Intellectualization

What is the defense mechanism where aggressive intent is cloaked by a passive method?

• Passive-aggressive behavior

• Schizoid fantasy

• Somatization

• Externalization

Which defense mechanism involves returning to an earlier stage of development?

• Regression

• Introjection

• Rationalization

• Sublimation

What is the term for psychic derivatives being converted into bodily symptoms?

• Somatization

• Displacement

• Projection

• Undoing