Steele and Aronson Administered the Verbal Portion of the GRE

Steele and Aronson administered the verbal portion of the GRE to black and white students, telling them either that the test was measuring their intellectual ability or that it had nothing to do with their intellectual ability. The results of this study revealed that:

A) in general, students performed better when they thought the test was important, regardless of race.
B) in general, students performed better when they thought the test was not important, regardless of race.
C) black students did better than white, when they thought the test was important, but worse when they thought it was not important.
D) white students performed equally well in both situations, but black students were highly affected by the way the test was described.