General Psychology - Chapter 13 Quiz - Dewitt - Cedarville

repression

banishment of anxiety-provoking thoughts, feelings, and memories

projection

attributing one’s own impulses to someone else

isolation

unacceptable emotions are set apart from conscious awareness

rationalization

justifying unacceptable behaviors

displacement

shifting an emotion to a more acceptable object or person

regression

returning to an earlier stage of maturity

undoing

carrying on as if no mistake occurred

compensation

attempt to make up for deficiencies

denial

ignore the existence of a painful realitiess

identification

modeling values and beliefs of another to the extreme/no self identity