 Umbrella to which all the

defense mechanism exist.

 Denial, in ordinary English usage, is
Example: asserting that a statement or
allegation is not true.[1] psychological
Student cheats on a defense mechanism by
test, the teacher see Sigmund Freud, in which a person is
him doing it but faced with a fact that is too
when asked about it uncomfortable to accept and rejects
he denies it it instead, insisting that it is not true
despite what may be overwhelming
happened. High
evidence.[2][3]
school students are  The subject may use:
excepts at denial.
 simple denial: deny the reality of
the unpleasant fact altogether
  The defense mechanism
that occurs when the
Example: A high ego does not accept the
schooler get a failing real motive for the
grade on the Maslow
test. However when individual’s behavior
asked why they fail, the
student says it is because
and replaces it with a
the teacher hates her. cover motive.
Instead of taking
responsibility for the
reality they didn’t
attend class and didn’t
study the content.
  Works to push an
unacceptable ID
Example:
impulses and traumatic
A child was sexually memories out of the
molested from the awareness.
age of 5-9 by her 1st
uncle, but she does
 Rationalization is the
not remember the foundation from which
event happening to all other defense
her. She does not
like to talk about mechanisms work.
abuse, but doesn’t
think it pertains to
her.
  Occurs when an individual
shitfs and unacceptable
feeling from one object to
Example: A another more acceptable one.
parents has a  In Freudian psychology,
verbally abusive displacement an unconscious
boss at work and defense mechanism whereby
doesn’t defend the mind redirects effects
themselves, but from an object felt to be
dangerous or unacceptable to
when they get
an object felt to be safe or
home they yell
acceptable.
and spank their
kids.
  Occurs when the ego replaces
an unacceptable impulse
with a socially approved
course of action.
*Example, a person
experiencing
 Sublimation is a defense
extreme anger might mechanism that allows us to
take up kick-boxing act out unacceptable
as a means of
impulses by converting these
venting frustration
behaviors into a more
acceptable form. Freud
believed that sublimation
*Jack and Jill was a sign of maturity that
example allows people to function
normally in socially
acceptable ways
  Occurs when we attribute our
own shortcomings or
problem to the fault of others.
Example: We can’t face how our own
If you have a strong unwanted feelings so we
dislike for someone, you project them onto others as
might instead believe
that he or she does not
undesirable traits.
like you.  Projection works by allowing
the expression of the desire
You have a tardy or impulse, but in a way that
problem and you are
upset when you are the ego cannot recognize,
meeting someone and therefore reducing anxiety
they are late.
  Occurs when we
express an
An example of reaction unacceptable
formation would be
treating someone you impulse by
strongly dislike in an
excessively friendly transforming into the
manner in order to hide
your true feelings.
opposite.
You try out for the
 reduces anxiety by
basketball team taking up the
anddon’t make it but say
you didn’t want to be on opposite.
that team anyway.
  Occurs when we behave in a
way characteristic of a
previous developmental
Example level.
An individual fixated at
an earlier developmental
stage might cry or sulk
 When confronted by stressful
upon hearing events, people sometimes
unpleasant news. abandon coping strategies
and revert to patterns of
An individual get into behavior used earlier in
the fetal position when
they see a scary movie. development
  Defense mechanisms are
psychological strategies brought
into play by the unconscious
Defense mind[1] to manipulate, deny, or
mechanisms are distort reality.
unconscious coping  Healthy persons normally use
mechanisms that different defenses throughout
reduce anxiety life.
generated by threats
from unacceptable
 An ego defense mechanism
impulses.[5] becomes pathological only
Defense when its persistent use leads to
mechanisms are maladaptive behavior such that
sometimes confused the physical and/or mental
with health of the individual is
coping strategies adversely affected.