Lucy has previously said that she thinks it is wrong of people to cheat on their homework. However duringfinals week she was extremely busy with work and trying to study on top of her regular homework so sheasked one of her friends to give her the answers to an online quiz. When her friend teased her for goingagainst her own morals she became very defensive and they got in an argument. Lucy claimed that shehad never said cheating was wrong and gave her friends several reasons why she believed it was ok tocheat in this case. This is an example ofvalue expressive function.adjustment function.ego defense function—l