AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Displacement is the redirection of an impulse (usually aggression) onto a powerless substitute target. The target can be a person or an object that can serve as a symbolic substitute. Displacement occurs when the Id wants to do something of which the Super ego does not permit.

Detailed explanation-2: -Displacement. Displacement involves taking out difficult feelings, frustrations, and impulses on a less threatening person or object.

Detailed explanation-3: -Projection is a form of defense in which unwanted feelings are displaced onto another person, where they then appear as a threat from the external world. A common form of projection occurs when an individual, threatened by his own angry feelings, accuses another of harbouring hostile thoughts.

Detailed explanation-4: -Displacement is a psychological defense mechanism in which a person redirects a negative emotion from its original source to a less threatening recipient.

Detailed explanation-5: -Definition. Sublimation is the channeling of unacceptable feelings, desires, and impulses – often of a sexual or aggressive nature – into positive, socially approved activity. This activity is often creative, but it does not have to be.