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| Denial-Definition | Arguing against an anxiety provoking stimuli by stating it doesn't exist. |
| Reaction formation-Example | A married woman who is disturbed by feeling attracted to one of her husband's friends treats him rudely. |
| Displacement-Definition | Taking out impulses on a less threatening target. |
| Displacement-Example | Slamming a door instead of hitting a person. |
| Suppression-Example | A student goes on vacation worried that she may be failing; she decides not to spoil her holiday by thinking of school. |
| Displacement-Example | Yelling at your spouse after an argument with your boss |
| Intellectualization-Definition | Avoiding unacceptable emotions by focusing on the intellectual aspects |
| Intellectualization-Example | Focusing on the details of a funeral as opposed to the sadness and grief |
| Projection-Definition | Placing unacceptable impulses in yourself onto someone else |
| Projection-Example | Homophobia |
| Rationalization-Definition | Supplying a logical or rational reason as opposed to the real reason |
| Rationalization-Example | Stating that you were fired because you didn't kiss up the boss, when the real reason was your poor performance |
| Reaction formation-Definition | Taking the opposite belief because the true belief causes anxiety |
| Reaction formation-Definition | Having a bias against a particular race or culture and then embracing that race or culture to the extreme |
| Regression-Example | Throwing a temper tantrum when you don't get your way. |
| Repression-Example | Forgetting sexual abuse from your childhood due to the trauma and anxiety |
| Suppression-Example | Trying to forget something that causes you anxiety |
| Suppression-Definition | Protecting self from unpleasant reality by refusal to perceive it or face it. |
| Repression-Definition | Preventing painful or dangerous thoughts from entering consciousness. |
| Projection-Definition | Placing blame for difficulties upon others or attributing one's own unethical desires to others. |
| Reaction formation | Preventing dangerous desires from being expressed by adopting exaggerated opposed attitudes and types of behavior and using them as 'barriers' |
| Regression-Definition | Retreating to earlier developmental level involving less mature responses. |
| Identification-Definition | Increasing feelings of worth by identifying self with person or institution of illustrious (well known or famous) standing. |
| Compensation-Definition | Covering up weakness by emphasizing desirable trait or making up for frustration in one area by over-gratification in another |
| Compensation-Example | A physically unattractive adolescent becomes an expert dancer. |
| Denial-Example | A person having an extramarital affair gives no thought to the possibility of pregnancy. |
| Identification-Example | A school girl wants her mother to buy her the same kind of shoes her classmates are wearing |
