In Psychology 101, I learned about Projecting and Mirroring... I
know one is where an individual sees his own problems in other
people... I always forget the other concept and/or confuse the
two. What's the difference between projecting and mirroring?
Projection is a defense mechanism whereby an individual
"projects" their own views, issues, or thoughts over someone
else, preventing the individual from getting an accurate view of
the other person and believing the thoughts come from the other
individual rather than oneself. Again, from Wikipedia:
Projection may be easily confused with Mirroring because with
Projection, an individual sees their own traits in another, but
the proper term can be remembered because the individual who is
projecting "blanks out" others like a blank movie screen, and
"projects" their own image, seeing what they are projecting
instead of what is really there. WIth Mirroring, an individual
is like a mirror themselves, as opposed to Projecting, when the
individual is like a movie proje