You Blame Your Poor Performance on a Test That You

question 64

Multiple Choice

You blame your poor performance on a test that you didn't study for on all the other work you had to do. The defense mechanism that BEST explains your behavior is:

• A) denial.
• B) rationalization.
• C) intellectualization.
• D) sublimation.

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Definitions:

Personal Growth

The process of improving self-awareness, developing talents, enhancing the quality of life, and contributing to the realization of dreams and aspirations.

Transference

A phenomenon in psychoanalysis where patients project feelings about figures from their past onto their therapist.

Psychoanalysis

A therapeutic technique and theory of personality developed by Sigmund Freud that emphasizes unconscious motivations and conflicts, and the importance of childhood experiences.

Transference

In psychotherapy, it's the phenomenon where clients project feelings and attitudes from a past relationship onto the therapist.