AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -7 Main Defense Mechanisms This list is sometimes shortened to provide only seven main defense mechanisms, which are denial, displacement, projection, rationalization, reaction formation, repression, and sublimation.

Detailed explanation-2: -Regression defense mechanism examples A ten-year-old is in the hospital to get his tonsils removed and begins sucking his thumb like he did when he was a toddler. A woman gets in an argument with someone at work and starts sobbing uncontrollably.

Detailed explanation-3: -Freudian defense mechanisms and empirical findings in modern social psychology: Reaction formation, projection, displacement, undoing, isolation, sublimation, and denial.

Detailed explanation-4: -Identification is also known as introjection. Projection: Attributing one’s own maladaptive inner impulses to someone else. For example, someone who commits an episode of infidelity in their marriage may then accuse their partner of infidelity or may become more suspicious of their partner.