Psychological Terms

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. Simply forgetting. Undoing Repression Isolation Denial

2. Emotions, especially anger, are attributed to someone else. Displacement Denial Projection Reversal

3. Falsification of reality. Reversal Projection Denial Sublimation

4. Convincing oneself that the exact opposite of something awful and unacceptable is true. Reversal Reaction formation Undoing Projection

5. 'Mad at Mary? Mary's mad at me!' Sublimation Reaction formation Reversal Denial

6. Negative emotions are transferred from a dangerous object who is capable of retaliation to something more safe who is unable to fight back. Sublimation Displacement Undoing Projection

7. Disconnecting from a traumatic emotion without denying, repressing or reshaping it in any way. Denial Sublimation Displacement Isolation

8. Avoiding negative emotions by overly contemplating the problem. Reversal Sublimation Intellectualization Reaction formation

9. Action meant to purge emotion. Sublimation Reversal Denial Undoing

10. Channeling emotions into some useful project. Reversal Intellectualization Projection Sublimation