Alice rates herself as above average regarding her ability to do well in school.Her tendency to maintain these positive feelings is called
A) an optimistic explanatory style.
B) an external explanatory style.
C) a self-improvement motive.
D) a self-enhancement motive.

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Alice's tendency to maintain positive feelings about her ability to do well in school suggests that she has a self-enhancement motive, which is the desire to maintain or increase positive self-views. The other options are less applicable - an optimistic explanatory style would refer to the way Alice explains negative events, an external explanatory style would refer to attributions of events to external factors rather than internal ones, and a self-improvement motive would refer to the drive to improve oneself rather than to maintain positive self-views.

Alice Rates Herself as Above Average Regarding Her Ability to Do