A Medical Student Just Finished the USMLE Step 1 Exam

A medical student just finished the USMLE Step 1 exam and is anxious about her performance.  She is especially unnerved when fellow students talk about the difficulty of the exam and discuss their answers to certain questions.  The student decides not to think about the exam until her score arrives because "worrying isn't going to change the result."  She is delighted when she receives a very high score several weeks later.  Before receiving the result, the student exhibited which of the following defense mechanisms?

A) Denial
B) Dissociation
C) Intellectualization
D) Rationalization
E) Reaction formation
F) Repression
G) Suppression

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