Psychology Defense Mechanisms Worksheet. An engaging activity to introduce or to revise different mechanisms. Adults who don t learn better ways of coping with stress or traumatic events in their lives will often resort to such primitive defense mechanisms as well.
This worksheet can either be used as a research activity or as a revision sheet. Defense mechanism examples 2. Defense mechanisms are rooted in freud s theory of personality according to his model the mind has three dueling forces.
It s meant to be used as practice for students to help them review and apply freudian defense mechanisms.
The id unconscious and primitive urges for food comfort and sex the. Depending on the coping skill they can be used during a difficult moment to quell negative thoughts or consistently every day to gradually improve mood. Denial is the refusal to accept reality or fact acting as if a painful event thought or feeling did not exist. The id unconscious and primitive urges for food comfort and sex the.
