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Sportsfan2111 · **on:** Jul 20, 2018

Helen is a college student who suffers from test anxiety and fear of failure. These problems began during early childhood when she started school younger than her peers. She failed at tasks that were easily accomplished by most of her schoolmates. Although Helen knows she has problems taking tests, she does not remember the traumatic events that led to her fear of failure. She is using the following defense mechanism:

A) regression.
B) displacement.
C) projection.
D) repression.

Question 2

Richard came home and yelled at his wife after his boss had chastised him for making an accounting error when doing the quarterly reports. This is an example of

A) reaction formation.
B) rationalization.
C) displacement.
D) projection.