Choose from the following defense mechanisms. Write your response in the blank:
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Choose from the following defense mechanisms. Write your response in the blank: (2 points each) Repression Sublimation Regression Projection Reaction-Formation Rationalization Displacement Denial 45. Even a top baseball player will sometimes strike out on an easy pitch, When this happens, his net action may be to throw his bat or kick the water cooler with all his might. diers exposed to traumatic experiences in concentration camps during wartime sometimes were unable to recall any part of their ordeal. 47. Mrs. Brown often accuses other women if talking too much and spreading rumors. It is rather obvious to those who know her that she is revealing her own inclinations in that area 48. A 6-year-old c During this stressful period of adjusting to his new home, he again wets the bed for several nights hild, who gave up bedwetting at the age of 3, moves to a new neighborhood 49. Mary has secretly disliked her mother since she was a young child. As these feelings arouse anxiety, Mary usually tells her friends that she oves her mother very much. TURN THE PAGEExplanation / Answer
45. Displacement.
Displacement is the defense mechanism used here, it is displacing one's anger or frustration(aggression) on to a more harmless or powerless thing or target. This is happening here,when the player is throwing the bat or kicking the water cooler with all his might.
46. Repression.
Soldiers have pushed back their traumatic experiences into unconscious,so as to avoid the traumatic and stressful feelings coming to the conscious mind. That is the trauma has been repressed into the unconscious.
47. Projection.
Mrs.Brown is projecting or attributing her own self image onto other as a self defense.
48. Regression.
The defense mechanism that is exhibited here is regression.The child's bedwetting is a way to cope the stressful period of adjustment to the new place. Regression sends a person to movement back to psychological time and the behaviors become more childish.
49. Reaction formation
A self defense in which the person believes and behaves the opposite of what he/she actually feels and thinks.