PSYC 341 Chapter 2: Psychological Perspective, Sociocultural, and Biopsychosocial
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Expulsion from awareness of unacceptable ideas or motives (b) example (i) A person remains unaware of harboring hateful or destructive impulses towards others (2) regression (a) description (i) The return of behavior that is typical of earlier stages of development (b) example (i) under stress, college student states biting his nails or becomes totally dependent on others (3) displacement (a) description (i) The transfer of unacceptable impulses away from their original objects onto safe or less- threatening objects (b) example (i) A worker slams a door after his boss chews him out (4) denial (a) description (i) refusal to recognize a threatening impulse or desire (b) example (i) A person who nearly chokes someone to death acts afterwards like it was no big deal (5) reaction formation (a) description (i) Behaving in a way that is the opposite of one"s true wishes or desires to keep these repressed (b) example (i)
