You go to the on-line grade book to check out your grade on the last test. The grade is a 60 . You tell yourself this has to be a mistake. The teacher must have recorded someone else's grade or graded your test with the wrong answer key. Which defense mechanism are you using?
a. reaction formation
b. repression
c. denial
d. projection
C
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