A Wife Comes Home from Work and Finds Her Husband

A wife comes home from work and finds her husband studying for a test.Trying to be thoughtful,she tells him how much she appreciates his dedication to school.Based on research on the relationship between affect and cognition,how will her husband most likely respond?

A) be positively affected by her comments and do better on his test.
B) be distracted by her comments and do poorly on his test.
C) not be affected one way or another by the compliment.
D) feel better about himself,but be unaffected with respect to his test performance.