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Psychology
Intro to Psych
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1. Social psychologists distinguish the following three components of an attitude: (a) cognitive, evaluative and behavioural. (b) conscious, unconscious and preconscious. (c) cognitive, social and physical. (d) consensus, consistency and distinctiv | |
2. The best form of persuasion when an attitude is not strongly held and is based on minimal knowledge is to (a) encourage emotional responses that bypass the belief components ofthe attitude. (b) induce the person to think carefully and weigh the argu | |
3. Which of the following characteristics of a speaker play an important role in how successful his or her attempt at persuasion will be? (a) credibility (b) attractiveness (c) power (d) all of the above | |
4. In Mr Jones' Year 6 class, the students have been discussing peer pressure and cigarette smoking. Mr Jones has presented weak arguments in favour of smoking - 'Smoking is cool', 'It will make you seem like an adult', 'It will make you more attractive t |