Ellen, an undergraduate, attends an end-of-semester party. the party is full of graduate and postdoctoral students discussing research they are doing and theories they are studyingin order to make a good impression in conversation, ellen brings up awards she has won in the past, her high grade point average, and which ivy league schools she wants to apply to for graduate school. ellen is engaging in
a) self-deprecationb) self-promotionc) self-verificationd) self-conceptualization