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A mechanism under, which a person tried to make his action and thoughts according to other person is known as :

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HTET 2025 Level 1 PRT Question Paper (5-Jul-2026)
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Introjection

Introjection is a defence mechanism in which a person internalises and adopts the attitudes, values, and thoughts of another person as their own, effectively shaping their own actions and thinking to match that other person.

This matches the description of trying to make one's own actions and thoughts conform to another person's.

Repression involves pushing distressing thoughts out of awareness, projection involves attributing one's own traits to others, and identification involves modelling oneself after another more broadly — none of these describe the specific internalising process of introjection.

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