Question

Suzy bought a used, high-mileage automobile because it was all she could afford. Attempting to justify her purchase, she raves to her friends about the car's attractiveness, good acceleration, and stereo. According to Freud, Suzy is using the defense mechanism of:

Answer 1

rationalization

Step-by-step explanation:

Rationalization: In psychology, the term "rationalization" is described as one of the different defense mechanisms which were proposed Sigmund Freud, and is determined as a process in which an individual's controversial feelings or behaviors are being explained and justified logically and rationally in order to avoid or ignore the exact or actual explanation and are being made superior, admirable, or consciously tolerable through some plausible means.

In the question above, the given statement represents "rationalization".