Question | Answer |
A physically handicapped boy is unable to participate in football so he compensates by becoming a great scholar | Compensation |
A woman drinks alcohol every day and cannot stop | Denial |
Covering up a real or perceived weakness by emphasizing a trait one considers more desirable | Compensation |
Refusing to acknolwdge the existence of a real situation or the feelings associated with it | Denial |
A client is angry at his doctor, does not express it, but becomes verbally abusive with the nurse | Displacement |
The transfer of feelings from one target to another that is conisdered less threatening or that is neutral | Displacement |
A teengaged boy who required lengthy rehabilitation after an accident decides to become a physical therapist as a result of his experiences | Identification |
Susan's husband is being transferred with his job to a city far away from her parents. She hides anxiety by explaining to her parents the advantages associated with the move | Intelleculization |
Children integrate their parents' value sysmtem into the process of conscience formation A child says to friend, "Don't cheat, It's wrong" | Introjection |
Without showing any emotion, a young woman describes being attacked and raped | Isolation |
Sue feels a strong sexual attraction to her track coach and tells her friend, "He's coming on to me!" | Projection |
Attriburing feelings or impulses unacceptable to one's self to another person | Projection |
John tells the rehab nurse, " I drink because it's the only way I can deal with my bad marriage and my worse job" | Rationalization |
Attempting to make excuses or formulate logical reasons to justify unacceptable feelings or behaviors | Rationalization |
Jane hates nursing. She attended nursing school to please her parents. During career day, she speaks to prospective students about the excellence of nursing as a career | Reaction Formation |
Preventing unacceptable or undesirable thoughts or behaviors from being expressed by exaggerating opposite thoughts or types of behaviors | Reaction Formation |
When a 2-year old Jay is hospitalized for tonsillitis he will drink only from a bottle, although his mother states he has been drinking from a cup for 6 months | Regression |
An accident victim can rember nothing about the accident | Repression |
Involuntarily blocking unpleasant feelings and experiences from one's awareness | Repression |
A mother whose son was killed by a drunk driver channels her anger and energy into being the president of the local chapter of Motherss Against Drunk Drivers | Sublimation |
Scarlett says, " I don't want to think about that now. I'll think about that tomorrow." | Suppression |
The voluntary blocking of unpleasant feelings and experiences from one's awareness. | Suppression |
Rechanneling of drives or impulses that are personally or socially unacceptable into activities that are constructive | Sublimation |
Joe is nervous about his new job and yells at his wife. On his way home, he stops and buys her some flowers | Undoing |
Symbolically negating or canceling out an experience that one finds intolerable | Undoing |