Identify three specific defense mechanisms and provide an example for each one
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER:
- ?Denial: Refusing to accept or acknowledge the reality of a situation or idea
- Rationalization: Devising a plausible reason or motive to explain one’s behavior
- Reaction formation: Engaging in a behavior or attitude that is at the opposite extreme of one’s true motive or impulse
- Regression: Returning to an earlier stage of development in one’s behavior, thinking, or attitudes
- Sublimation: Directing emotions into an activity that is more constructive and socially acceptable
- Repression: Excluding wishes, impulses, ideas, or memories from consciousness
- Projection: Attributing one’s own ideas, feelings, or attitudes to other people
- Displacement: Directing emotions toward a less threatening source?
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