Which of the following statements about the routes of persuasive messages is true?

a. Persuasion usually occurs via the central route.

b. Attitudes formed via the central route are longer lasting than those formed via the peripheral route.

c. Attitudes formed via the peripheral route are better predictors of behavior than those formed via the central route.

d. Attitudes formed via the central route are longer lasting, but those formed via the peripheral route are more resistant to challenge

Which term describes thoughts, feelings, and motives that each of us experiences privately but that cannot be observed directly?

Why is the psychodynamic approach not scientific?

During an explosion, secondary blast injuries occur when?

When one changes their attitude based upon systematic processing of information presented in the persuasive message this is called the:

a. heuristic processing method

b. central route to persuasion

c. peripheral route to persuasion

d. main transfer route to persuasion

Philosophical approach. The critic David Denby made the following statement about the ethos, or attitudes and ethical beliefs, of the Greek and Trojan warriors of Homer's epic:

Which of the following statements is true of social roles and social norms?

A. Conforming to a social role does not induce people to change their behavior in undesirable ways.

B. Social role refers to behavior that occurs in response to direct social pressure.

C. Social roles are the expectations for people who occupy a given social position.

D. Social norms are less specific than social norms because they do not apply to particular social positions.

Describe the epidemiology of brucellosis.

$\underline{\hspace{2cm}}$ is a tendency to blame victims for their misfortune, so that one feels less likely to be victimized in a similar way.

a. Defensive attribution

b. Fundamental attribution

c. Person perception

d. Environmental attribution

Sylvie asks her brother Sam if she can borrow his car. Sam says she can if she will first go to the car and retrieve his Rihanna CD from his giant CD collection. So that she won't forget which CD Sam wants, Sylvie imagines a picture of Rihanna in her head while humming the song "Umbrella" as she walks to the car. Sylvie is relying on which component(s) of working memory to help her out?

The important conclusion from Milgram's study of obedience is that:

A. people apparently like to shock other people.

B. people will yield to imagined pressure.

C. people who appear to be good may be inherently bad.

D. the situation is a stronger indicator of behavior than the kind of person.

Michael grows up in a home where his father is generally unloving toward his mother. He observes his father yell and degrade his mother and he notices that his mother never resists this treatment. Based on the work of Bandura, what might we predict about Michael's own relationships when he is older?

Which of the following is not a component of emotional intelligence? a. Understanding emotions b. Perceiving emotions c. Using emotions d. Managing emotions e. Inventing emotions

People tend to have different social and political attitudes depending on their age because attitudes change as people grow older. This refers to the ________ explanation for how age plays a role in persuasion.