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Stack Perception
Stack Coping mechanisms
Question | Answer |
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Denial | Failure to acknowledge an intolerable thought, feeling, experience, reality (i.e. Alcoholic says his drinking is not a problem; terminally ill patient makes long range plans) |
Displacement | Redirection of feelings to subject that is acceptible or less threatening (i.e. Kicking the dog or yelling at one's spouse after a bad day at work) |
Projection | Attribution to others of one's own unacceptable thoughts, feelings, qualities (i.e. Saying someone you are angry with dislikes you; staff nurse complains about the head nurse's poor skills after receiving an unfavorbale evaluation) |
Undoing | An attempt to erase an unacceptable act or thought (i.e. Ecessively apoligizing; buying extravagant gifts for one's spouse while having an affair) |
Compensation | An attempt to overcome a real or imagined shortcoming (i.e. a sickly child becoming an athlete) |
Symbolization | A less threatening object or idea is used to represent another (i.e. dreams; phobias) |
Substitution | Replacing desired, impractical, or unobtainable object with one that is attainable (i.e. Marrying someone who looks like a former fiancee) |
Introjection | Characteristic of another incoroporated into oneself (i.e. Wife dies and husband develops symptoms of her illness) |
Repression | Unacceptable thoughts kept from awarness (i.e. forgetting painful experience) |
Reaction formation | Expressing attitude directly opposite of unconscious one (i.e. someone with strong dependecny needs chooses a 'helping' profession) |
Regression | Returning to an earlier stage of development (i.e. temper tantrum, baby talk, bedwetting) |
Dissociation | Detachment of painful emotional experience from consciousness (i.e. Amnesia) |
Rationalization | Attempts to justify, via logical or acceptable explanations, acts or feeling that are not logical or acceptable (i.e. a student who is sexually attracted to her teacher tells herself she needs to stay after class for help with a project) |
Idealization | Glorifying another's characteristics (i.e. only noticing another's positive qualities) |
Identification | Incorporating certain attributes of another into one's own thoughts or behavior (i.e. A person dresses like someone she admires) |