PSY 101 Lecture 14: PSY101, lecture notes Ch 14
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For example, regression allows us to retreat to an earlier, more infantile stage of development: the ego"s prote(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e (cid:373)ethods of redu(cid:272)i(cid:374)g a(cid:374)(cid:454)iet(cid:455) (cid:271)(cid:455) u(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)iousl(cid:455) distorti(cid:374)g realit(cid:455), 1. Regression leads an individual faced with anxiety to retreat to a more infantile psychosexual stage: 2. Repression banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness: 3. Reaction formation causes the ego to unconsciously switch unacceptable impulses into their opposites. People may express feelings of purity when they may be suffering anxiety from unconscious feelings about sex: 4. Projection leads people to disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others: 5. Rationalization offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threate(cid:374)i(cid:374)g, u(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious reaso(cid:374)s for o(cid:374)e"s a(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s: 6. Displacement shifts sexual and aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person, redirecting anger toward a safer outlet: the neo-freudians and psychodynamic theorists, like freud, alfred adler believed in childhood tensions.
