The Main Reason That Aronson and Mettee Administered the California

question 4

Multiple Choice

The main reason that Aronson and Mettee administered the California Personality Inventory (CPI) to their subjects in the card-cheating experiment was:

• A) to measure the subjects' chronic self-esteem.
• B) to determine whether some subjects might be too sensitive to participate in an experiment involving deception.
• C) to determine which subjects displayed personality characteristics that would lead them to engage in cheating or other dishonest behavior.
• D) to provide the experimenters with a "cover" for manipulating subjects' self-esteem by providing bogus test results.

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