Question

Mary is studying for her final exams and is quite stressed about getting good grades. Her roommate Anne asks, "Have you finished studying yet?" Mary gets offended and verbally attacks Anne by saying, "Get off my case. I’m doing the best I can to prepare." Anne replies, "Sorry Mary, I was just checking to see how you were doing." Mary’s dialogue to Anne could be viewed as:

Answer 1

The correct answer is: Defensive listening

Step-by-step explanation:

Defensive listening is when someone takes as a personal attack a simple inocent comment made to them, when the listener of the comment feels specially targeted by the speakers' comment and interpret it as a pun or attack, in this case, due to the stressful situation Mary is under she interpret Annes' question as an aggressive question even though she was just checking how she was and promptly gave her a defensive aggressive response, Therefore we can conclude that Mary's response was due to defensive listening.