Your first semester of college, you have several midterms you need to study for. Since you don't have time, you decide to study only for the classes in which the teacher provided a study guide. Since your Italian professor did not provide a study guide, you didn't study for the midterm. After you perform poorly on the exam, you blame your professor. The defense mechanism that BEST explains your behavior is:
A) projection.
B) rationalization.
C) intellectualization.
D) displacement.