If you show defensiveness, people are more likely to
a. confront you about your problems
b. critique your performance
c. close their communication
d. check your goals

c.  If you show defensiveness, people are more likely to close their communication.

Explanation:

If we are talking to someone, and the other puts themselves on guard, the phenomenon called defensive communication occurs, which causes one party to close completely to dialogue. In ny relationship, it is a disaster because it causes unnecessary friction, weakening their bonds and their effectiveness.

The state of noncommunication can reach such a degree that, at the slightest gesture of the first, the reaction of the second is such that it inhibits any possibility that something may be said or heard. This results from poor habitual communication, inadequate postures and expressions, which grow to intolerance.