Defense Mechanisms Quiz Show

PresenterMs. Watkins

TRUE or FALSE?TRUE or FALSE?Rationalization is creating false but plausible excuses to justify unacceptable behavior ?

Bolstering self-esteem by forming an imaginary or real alliance with some person or group

Identification

Diverting emotional feelings from their original source to a substitute target is?

Displacement usually anger

A.

B.

C.

D.

E.

Projection is?

All of the above

Not very common

Feelings of death

How teens relate to puberty

Attributing one’s own thoughts, feelings, or motives to another

Match the device to what it measures:

Repression

Regression

Denial

Sublimation

Reaction Formation

Actions opposite of feelings

I do not have a problem

Depressing a memory

A way of getting sympathy

Anger management

Rationalization

Compartmentalization

Defense Mechanisms

Compensation

Dissociation

Loses track of time

Protects the ego

Putting something in a different perspective

Separates sets of values

I can’t cook, but I can ski

Continued!

• Denial: claiming/believing that what is true to be actually false.

• Displacement: redirecting emotions to a substitute target. • Intellectualization: taking an objective viewpoint. • Projection: attributing uncomfortable feelings to others. • Rationalization: creating false but credible justifications. • Reaction Formation: overacting in the opposite way to the

fear. • Regression: going back to acting as a child. • Repression: pushing uncomfortable thoughts into the

subconscious. • Sublimation: redirecting 'wrong' urges into socially

acceptable actions.

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