Psych vocab

Defense mechanisms:
Covering up a weakness by stressing a strong trait.

Defense mechanisms:
Refusal to recognize reality.

Defense mechanisms:
Transferring emotions to substitute instead of source.

Defense mechanisms:
Attributing your own unwanted trait to another. He made me do it

Defense mechanisms:
Justification of behavior using reasons other than the real

Defense mechanisms:
Demonstrating behaviors that is axact opposite of what is expected

Defense mechanisms:
Resorting to earlier behavior or developemental level

Defense mechanisms:
Inability or refusal to recall past events or thoughts

Understanding what your patient is experiencing is called

Behavior modification

Repetition of meaningless movements, words, or expressions

Grief stages