Howie is not entirely sure how smart he is, so he asks other students in his first-grade class how they did on a test. after checking with five other children, howie realizes he did better than any of them, so he concludes that he must be pretty smart after all. the process by which howie reached this conclusion is
(a)-social comparison
(b)- reflected appraisal
(c)-self-fulfilling prophesy
(d)- none of the above