Mike Desperately Wants to Do Well on the Scholastic Assessment

Multiple Choice

Mike desperately wants to do well on the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) , as his scores will affect his chances of getting into his first-choice college. He also knows that many students at his school think that SAT scores are good indicators of how "smart" a person is. Yet the night before the test, rather than get a good night's sleep, Mike goes out with his friends, has a few beers, comes home late, and wakes up with a hangover. With this information in mind, we might suspect that Michael:

A) Is engaging in self-socialization
B) Is engaging in self-handicapping
C) Has fallen victim to the imaginary-audience phenomenon
D) Has poorly developed social information processing skills