Psychoanalytic Defense Mechanisms Quiz: Test Your Knowledge

📚 Quick Study Guide

• 🛡️ Defense Mechanisms: Unconscious psychological strategies used to cope with anxiety and maintain a positive self-image.
• 🚫 Repression: Blocking unacceptable thoughts and impulses from conscious awareness.
• ⬆️ Sublimation: Channeling unacceptable impulses into socially acceptable behaviors.
• 🎭 Reaction Formation: Transforming unacceptable impulses into their opposite.
• ↩️ Regression: Reverting to earlier stages of development in times of stress.
• 🎯 Projection: Attributing one's own unacceptable thoughts or feelings to another person.
• rationalization Rationalization: Creating false but believable explanations to justify unacceptable behavior.
• 💭 Displacement: Redirecting emotions from a dangerous object to a safe object.
• 🙅 Denial: Refusing to accept reality or facts.

Practice Quiz

1. Which defense mechanism involves attributing your own unacceptable thoughts or feelings to someone else?
   1. Repression
   2. Projection
   3. Sublimation
   4. Regression
2. A person who deals with anxiety by returning to an earlier stage of development is using which defense mechanism?
   1. Rationalization
   2. Reaction Formation
   3. Regression
   4. Displacement
3. What defense mechanism involves transforming unacceptable impulses into their opposite?
   1. Sublimation
   2. Denial
   3. Reaction Formation
   4. Repression
4. Channeling unacceptable impulses into socially acceptable behaviors is known as:
   1. Projection
   2. Rationalization
   3. Sublimation
   4. Displacement
5. Which defense mechanism involves blocking unacceptable thoughts and impulses from conscious awareness?
   1. Denial
   2. Repression
   3. Rationalization
   4. Sublimation
6. Creating false but believable explanations to justify unacceptable behavior describes which defense mechanism?
   1. Regression
   2. Displacement
   3. Rationalization
   4. Projection
7. Refusing to accept reality or facts is an example of which defense mechanism?
   1. Repression
   2. Reaction Formation
   3. Denial
   4. Sublimation