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| 12659402930 | rationalization | defense mechanism that offers self-justifying explanations in place of the real, more threatening, unconscious reasons for one's actions | 0 | |
| 12659400609 | displacement | psychoanalytic defense mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object or person, as when redirecting anger toward a safer outlet | 1 | |
| 12659326050 | reciprocal determinism | the interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment | 2 | |
| 12659392592 | projection | psychoanalytic defense mechanism by which people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others | 3 | |
| 12659350436 | Big Five Factors | conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness, extraversion are factored to determine one's personality | 4 | |
| 12659354081 | Eysenck Personality Questionnaire | uses extroversion, introversion, unstable, stable to organize personality | 5 | |
| 12659389390 | denial | refusing to believe or even perceive painful realities | 6 | |
| 12659357810 | Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory | a well-researched, clinical questionnaire used to assess personality and psychological abnormalities/problems | 7 | |
| 12659382886 | reaction formation | preventing unacceptable thoughts or behaviors from being expressed by exaggerating opposite thoughts or types of behaviors. | 8 | |
| 12659364251 | Myers-Briggs Type Indicator | a personality test that taps four characteristics and classifies people into 1 of 16 personality types | 9 | |
| 12659371795 | sublimation | channeling threatening devices into acceptable outlets or professions | 10 | |
| 12659371796 | regression | psychoanalytic defense mechanism in which an individual faced with anxiety retreats to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixated | 11 | |
| 12659369459 | repression | in psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes from consciousness anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories | 12 | |
| 12659366874 | fixation | according to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved | 13 |
