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Coping Mechanisms
Terms from Ch 5 on Homeostatsis, Adaptation, and Stress
Term | Definition |
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Repression | Forgetting about the stressor |
Suppression | Purposely avoiding thinking about a stressor |
Denial | Rejecting information |
Rationalization | Relieving oneself of personal accountability by attributing responsibility to someone or something else. |
Displacement | Taking anger out on something or someone else who is less likely to retaliate |
Regression | Behaving in a manner that is characteristic of a much younger age |
Projection | Attributing that which is unacceptable in oneself onto another |
Somatization | Manifesting emotional stress through a physical disorder |
Compensation | Excelling at something to make up for a weakness of another kind. |
Sublimation | Channeling one's energies into acceptable alternative |
Reaction formation | Acting just the opposite of one's feelings |
Identification | Taking on the characteristics of another |