AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The ego attributes personal shortcomings, problems, and faults to others. Ex: A man who has a strong desire to have an extramarital affair accuses his wife of flirting with other men. The ego seeks the security of an earlier developmental period in the face of stress.

Detailed explanation-2: -Projection: The ego attributes personal shortcomings, problems, and faults to others. Reaction Formation: The ego transforms an unacceptable motive into its opposite. Transforming anxiety-producing thoughts or feelings into their opposites in consciousness.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ed, LCSW, projection refers to unconsciously taking unwanted emotions or traits you don’t like about yourself and attributing them to someone else. A common example is a cheating spouse who suspects their partner is being unfaithful.

Detailed explanation-4: -Projection of marital guilt: Thoughts of infidelity to a partner may be unconsciously projected in self-defence on to the partner in question, so that the guilt attached to the thoughts can be repudiated or turned to blame instead, in a process linked to denial.

Detailed explanation-5: -Projection is a psychological defense mechanism in which individuals attribute characteristics they find unacceptable in themselves to another person. For example, a husband who has a hostile nature might attribute this hostility to his wife and say she has an anger management problem.