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18 Cards in this Set
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What is denial?
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Refusal to acknowledge a part of reality
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What is repression?
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Threatening thoughts are pushed into the unconscious
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What is suppression?
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Consciously putting a threating or distressing thought out of one's awareness
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What is rationalization?
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Developing an acceptable (to self) reason for behavior or outcome
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What is reaction-formation?
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Engaging in a behavior that is opposite of true behaviors (homophobia)
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What is sublimation?
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Anxiety channeled into a socially acceptable behavior (e.g. running)
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What is compensation?
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Making up for a deficit by success in another area (I may be ugly, but I'm really smart)
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What is projection?
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Placing own undesirable traits onto another--blaming others for difficulty (the others were cheating)
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What is displacement?
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Directing feelings about one object/person toward a less threatening object/person (e.g. kick the dog)
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What is identification?
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taking onto oneself the traits of others that one desires (e.g. Joanne)
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What is introjection?
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Symbolic incorporation of another into one's own personality (after wife's death, husband gets symptoms of disease)
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What is conversion?
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Anxiety is converted into a physical symptom that is sensory or motor in nature (e.g. paralysis)
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What is symbolization?
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Representing an idea or object by a substitute object or sign (e.g. man spurned by librarian develops a hatred of books)
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What is dissociation?
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separation or splitting off of one aspect of mental process
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What is undoing?
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behavior opposite of earlier thought (flowers for Jonathan)
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What is regression?
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Behavior from an earlier stage of development
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What is isolation?
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Separating emotions from cognitive thought
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What is splitting?
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viewing people and situations as either good or bad
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