Question

A person sitting next to you in class gets a low grade on this exam. When you discuss the exam results, the person blames their performance on the difficulty of the material, their lack of belief in psychoanalytic theory, lack of necessity to have this knowledge in the future, belief that the material is irrelevant, etc. This student may be using the Freudian defense mechanism of _______________ to explain their behavior.

Answer 1

Denial, because they are believing something that is helpful to them (i.e education) is not, to divert a negative response from them getting a low grade