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Involuntary removal of something from conscious awareness. Unconscious type of forgetting something that causes pain or discomfort. Most fundamental and frequently used defense mechanism.

A. Denial
B. Regression
C. Repression
D. Displacement
Repression
Involves denying the existence of some external threat or traumatic event that has occured.

A. Denial
B. Regression
C. Repression
D. Displacement
Denial
Person retreats to an earlier period of life that was more pleasant and free of frustration and anxiety.

A. Denial
B. Regression
C. Repression
D. Displacement
Regression
Shifting the impulse from some unattainable object to another. Does not satisfy tensions as well as original object.

A. Denial
B. Regression
C. Repression
D. Displacement
Displacement
A person threatened by sexual longings who reverses them and becomes a rabid anti-pornography crusader is engaging in what defense mechanism:

A. Displacememnt
B. Reaction Formation
C. Projection
D. Sublimation
Reaction Formation