DEFINITIONS
The placement of a person’s undesired thoughts, feelings or impulses onto another person who does not have those thoughts, feelings or impulses.
What is Projection
You break your curfew and your parents are mad with you. You feel they have given you an unfair punishment. After the scolding, you go and take your anger out on your younger sister.
What is Displacement
The phenomenon in which the greater the number of bystanders who witness an emergency, the less likely any one of them is to help.
What is the Bystander Effect
"It sounds like you may be attributing your own feelings to someone else."
Projection
After forgetting to study and failing the exam, Kevin says:
"Honestly, the teacher just has something against me."
Rationalization
A process of counterbalancing perceived weaknesses by emphasizing strengths in other arenas.
What is Compensation
You return from the war completely unharmed. However, you have no recollection of what happened exactly during a close brush with death during open fire.
What is Repression
The idea that we learn by watching other people's behavior.
What is the Social Cognitive Theory
"You seem to be giving reasonable explanations for your behavior, but those explanations may not be the real reason."
Rationzalization
Sofia spends the entire day accusing everyone else of being angry and hostile while she is visibly furious herself.
Projection
The converting of unwanted or dangerous thoughts, feelings or impulses into their opposites.
What is Reaction Formation
You are worried that you're not very smart. You make a dumb mistake that no one says anything about at all, and then you accuse others of saying that you're just plain stupid. What defense mechanism are you using to try and deal with your insecurities?
What is Projection
When there are many people around, an individual’s responsibility to act seems to decrease.
What is Diffusion of Responsibility
"I wonder if the anger you're showing toward staff actually belongs somewhere else."
Displacement
After getting yelled at by his boss, Miguel goes home and passionately argues with his WiFi router because "it knows what it did."
Displacement
Displacement
What is the redirecting of thoughts, feelings, and impulses directed at one person or object, but taken out upon another person or object
You cheated on a test and after you've taken the test you start feeling guilty. You then tell yourself that you always study hard for tests and that a lot of other students cheated on the test as well.
What is Rationalization
Define Emotion-Focused Coping
What is a way of dealing with stress that aims to regulate your emotions (used when situation is beyond our control)
"You continue to insist there is no problem despite several negative consequences."
Denial
After crashing his bicycle into a parked car, Daniel stands up and says:
"That car really should've moved."
Denial
Repression
What is unconscious blocking of unacceptable thoughts, feelings and impulses
You are mad your boyfriend/girlfriend for not taking you out on a date for Valentine's day. But instead of telling them the truth when they ask what's wrong, you tell them nothing is wrong. You really are angry at them, but you tell them you are not. What defense mechanism are you using?
What is Reaction Formation
Define Cognitive Psychology?
What is the branch of psychology that studies mental processes including how people think, perceive, remember, and learn.
"You may be acting the exact opposite of what you're truly feeling because those feelings are uncomfortable."
Reaction Formation
A man who is terrified of public speaking walks on stage yelling:
"I LOVE PUBLIC SPEAKING! THIS IS MY FAVORITE THING IN THE WORLD!"
Reaction formation