AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Retreating to an earlier time that seems less threatening and requires less responsibility. Blocking out thoughts about unpleasant things or experiences. Transforming unacceptable behaviors into acceptable ones.

Detailed explanation-2: -Regression is a defense mechanism in which people seem to return to an earlier developmental stage. This tends to occur around periods of stress-for example, an overwhelmed child may revert to bedwetting or thumb-sucking. Regression may arise from a desire to reduce anxiety and feel psychologically safe.

Detailed explanation-3: -Regression: Adapting one’s behavior to earlier levels of psychosocial development. For example, a stressful event may cause an individual to regress to bed-wetting after they have already outgrown this behavior. Repression: Subconsciously blocking ideas or impulses that are undesirable.

Detailed explanation-4: -WHAT IS REGRESSION? According to Sigmund Freud, 1 regression is an unconscious defense mechanism, which causes the temporary or long-term reversion of the ego to an earlier stage of development (instead of handling unacceptable impulses in a more adult manner).

Detailed explanation-5: -Regression is a defense mechanism proposed by Anna Freud whereby the the ego reverts to an earlier stage of development usually in response to stressful situations. Regression functions as form of retreat, enabling a person to psychologically go back in time to a period when the person felt safer.