Suppose That You Are a Research Participant in a Study

Multiple Choice

Suppose that you are a research participant in a study, and a researcher asks you to work on a puzzle while sitting in front of a mirror. He also mentions that your performance will be videotaped. Given these two pieces of information, you would be wise to suspect that the researcher is trying to increase ____.

A) the self-reference effect
B) self-awareness
C) interdependent self-construal
D) the consistency motive