CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Defense mechanisms are behaviors that people use to separate themselves from unpleasant events, actions, or thoughts. The idea of defense mechanisms comes from psychoanalytic theory, a psychological perspective of personality that sees personality as the interaction between three components: id, ego, and super-ego.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Defense mechanisms are behaviors that an individual might use to cope with an uncomfortable situation or problem. Q. A person tries to mask up or cover up his/her weaknesses by developing strengths in other areas.

Detailed explanation-4: -Both Freuds studied defence mechanisms, but Anna spent more of her time and research on five main mechanisms: repression, regression, projection, reaction formation, and sublimation. All defence mechanisms are responses to anxiety and how the consciousness and unconscious manage the stress of a social situation.

Detailed explanation-5: -We use such mechanisms to distance ourselves from unpleasant feelings like guilt or shame. Defense mechanisms are explained in the psychoanalytic theory by Sigmund Freud. The theory states that behaviors like defense mechanisms are out of a person’s control or are done unconsciously.