CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Rationalization occurs when a person tries to rationalize or provide excuses for their behavior. When a person who is using rationalization as a defense mechanism, they are typically trying to find a way to a way to provide acceptable way to explain their behavior.

Detailed explanation-2: -Rationalization is a defense mechanism in which people justify difficult or unacceptable feelings with seemingly logical reasons and explanations. For example, a student who is rejected from her dream college may explain that she’s happy to be attending a school that’s less competitive and more welcoming.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Intellectualization uses abstract thinking to detach oneself from feelings, while rationalization uses excuses and alternative reasons to cover up facts and motives (Perry 1990).

Detailed explanation-5: -In Freud’s classic psychoanalytic theory, rationalization is a defense mechanism, an unconscious attempt to avoid addressing the underlying reasons for a behavior. Rationalizing an event may help individuals maintain self-respect or avoid guilt over something they have done wrong.