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Terms from Fall 2019 Student Projects on Freud's Defense Mechanisms.

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cause for one objective/ task to be shifted to another in substitution   Displaced  
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the act or feeling of vulnerability and/ or being at risk to harm   Threatening  
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The action of attempting to explain or justify behavior or an attitude with logical reasons, even if those are not appropriate   Rationalization  
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is a reservoir of feelings, thoughts, urges, and memories that outside of our conscious awareness   Unconscious Mind  
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A defense mechanism in which a person, faced with a painful fact, rejects the reality of that fact   Denial  
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a type of defense mechanism that leads to the temporary or long-term reversion of the ego to an earlier stage of development rather than handling unacceptable impulses or actions in a more adaptive way   Regression  
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Casting feelings you have onto another person and blaming them for those feelings   Projection  
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To be aware of   Conscious  
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the act of putting a negative reaction into a less threatening target   Displacement  
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one being violent or hostile towards another person, object and/ or situation   Aggression  
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An unconscious attempt to avoid addressing the underlying reasons for a behavior   Defense Mechanisms  
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consists of everything inside of our awareness This is the aspect of our mental processing that we can think and talk about in a rational way Things that are in the unconscious are only available to theconscious mind in disguised form   conscious mind  
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ways to which external or internal stress is managed, adapted to or acted upon   Coping mechanism  
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Relating to, denoting, or preserving the character of an early stage in the evolutionary or historical development of something   Primitive  
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In psychoanalytic theory, the ego’s protective methods   Defense mechanisms  
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Consciously getting rid of a thought as a defense mechanism   Suppression  
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a psychoanalyst who followed the footsteps of her father in the studies of defense mechanisms   Anna Freud  
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putting your feelings/ action into something   Projecting  
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The action or practice of allowing oneself to believe that a false or invalidated feeling, idea, or situation is true   Self-deception  
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Refers to hiding unwanted material before it ever reaches consciousness,this process occurs entirely unconsciously   Primary Repression  
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the painful fact is denied altogether   Simple denial  
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A habitual gesture or way of speaking or behaving   Mannerism  
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When a person does something wrong or inappropriate, then dumps the blame on someone else to avoid taking responsibility for their own behavior   Blame shifting  
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When a suppressed thought intrusively comes back into your mind   Rebound Effect  
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your natural way of reacting to a stimulus to protect yourself from an unwanted feeling, action, and so forth   defense mechanism  
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getting fired, wanting to punch your ex boss, and punching a wall   example of displacement  
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The state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially related to behavioral decisions and attitude change   Cognitive dissonance  
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Occurs when a person becomes aware of repressed material but then purposely tries to remove it from awareness   Repression proper  
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the painful fact is admitted but its seriousness is downplayed.   Minimisational denial  
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When you revert back to an earlier stage of life KNOWING you're doing it   Cpnscious Regression  
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1st enlightenment thinker to employ the projection concept   Ludwig Feuerbach  
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A thought that is unwanted and difficult to get rid of   Intrusive Thought  
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to be trouble minded or upset/ unsettled about a problem and/ or situation   agitated  
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getting mad that your mom didn't make your favorite dinner and going into your room and singing at the top of your lungs   example of displacement  
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The part of the mind which is inaccessible to the conscious mind but affects behavior and emotions   Unconscious  
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Freud viewed the forces on us as a form of energy, from the senses being converted into psychic energy in the personality   Energy and Cathexis  
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"the painful fact is admitted, the seriousness also admitted, but one's moral responsibility in the situation involving the painful fact is downplayed   Transference denial  
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When you revert back to an earlier stage of life NOT KNOWING you're doing it   For example, doing something you used to do as a child that you still do as an adult such as biting your nails, playing with your hair, biting a pencil eraser, ect  
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Unaware of acting a certain way or doing something   Unconscious  
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A psychological reaction to reduce anxiety and the damage from a harmful stimuli   Defense Mechanism  
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