At the recent school board meeting, five individuals spoke on both the merits and problems of full-day kindergarten as compared to half-day kindergarten. After the meeting, your friend Corrine tells you, "I don't think there is any way they can justify full-day kindergarten at this point. Did you hear all those statistics about the high costs versus low benefits?" You reply that there was good evidence on both sides of the issue. Corrine frowns and tells you that she doesn't remember it that way. By tuning out part of what was said at the meeting, Corrine appears to be exhibiting ________ listening.

Defensive listening is the case when the person creates a wrong impression or forms a wrong meaning from the simple statements of another person. Such individual tends to find faults and wrong impressions from the simple comments. They assume such statements to be a personal attack to them. This leads them to trigger themselves to fight in defense. In the above case, Corrine's response to the writer exhibits her process of defensive listening.