Define the following defense mechanisms and provide examples of how you or someone you know has used each of these in the recent past.

Defense Mechanisms

 

This activity will help you to better understand how people use defense mechanisms on a daily basis as a coping strategy.

Defense Mechanisms

 

This activity will help you to better understand how people use defense mechanisms on a daily basis as a coping strategy.  Define the following defense mechanisms and provide examples of how you or someone you know has used each of these in the recent past.

  1. Displacement
  2. Sublimation
  3. Project Reaction Formation
  4. Regression
  5. Rationalization
  6. Repression
  7. Denial
  8. Intellectualization

Complete and submit the assignment in a 2 to 3 page document.

PART II

 

Choose three concepts from Module 7 that you have found most interesting.  Your submission must be at least 2 pages in length.  Complete the following:

  1. Describe each concept.

 

  1. Explain the application each has to modern psychology or ‘real life.’

 

Three concepts are anxiety disorders, mood disorders, and Schizophrenia

  1. Project Reaction Formation
  2. Regression
  3. Rationalization
  4. Repression
  5. Denial
  6. Intellectualization

Complete and submit the assignment in a 2 to 3 page document.

 

 

PART II

Choose three concepts from Module 7 that you have found most interesting.  Your submission must be at least 2 pages in length.  Complete the following:

  1. Describe each concept.

 

  1. Explain the application each has to modern psychology or ‘real life.’

 

Three concepts are anxiety disorders, mood disorders, and Schizophrenia