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18 Cards in this Set
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Keeping unacceptable impulses one has or wishes from conscious awareness
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Repression
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Not accepting a painful reality into conscious awareness
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Denial
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Attributing to someone else one's own unacceptable thoughts or feelings
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Projection
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Redirecting emotional responses from their real target to someone else
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Displacement
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Converting an unacceptable feeling into its opposite
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Reaction Formation
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Retreating to the behavioral patterns of an earlier stage of development
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Regression
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Offering acceptable reasons for an unacceptable action or attitude
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Rationalization
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Converting unacceptable aggressive or sexual impulses into socially valued behaviors
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Sublimation
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A professor starting a lecture she dreaded giving says, "In conclusion"
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Repression
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A victim of childhood abuse does not acknowledge it as an adult
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Denial
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A man who hates members of racial group believes that it is they who dislike him
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Projection
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A child gets mad at her brother but instead acts angrily towards her friend
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Displacement
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A person with sexual feelings toward children leads a campaign against child sexual abuse
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Reaction Formation
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An adolescent dealing with unacceptable feelings of social inadequacy might attempt to mask those feelings by seeking oral gratification
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Regression
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A parent berates a child out of impatience, then indicates that she did so to "build character."
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Rationalization
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Someone who has aggressive feelings toward his father becomes a surgeon
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Sublimation
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A strategy used by the ego to protect itself from anxiety.
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Defense Mechanism
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This defense mechanism is thought to be one of the most important. This process pushes impulses and thoughts unacceptable to the ego into the unconsciousness.
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Repression
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