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A college athlete who expresses attitudes favorable toward scholarship, participates in scholastic honor societies, and questions the lower scholastic requirement placed on athletes at his college is illustrating the fact that
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A person's membership group is not necessarily his or her reference group.
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An adult child who is a strong supporter of the Democratic Party enjoys visiting each week with his parents who are staunch Republicans. This situation best illustrates that
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A person's membership group is not necessarily his or her reference group.
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If the persuader appears to have nothing to gain if the audience accepts his or her message, then attitude change
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Is encouraged.
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Celeste worked and voted for a candidate that she later discovered was dishonest and immoral. These facts made Celeste very uncomfortable because these were attributes that she did not admire. Celeste's feelings can best be explained by the
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Cognitive dissonance theory.
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In Festinger's classic experiment, the college students that ultimately lied about the boring task and said "it was interesting" were the ones that
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Were paid $1.
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An important difference between brainwashing and other types of persuasion is that brainwashing
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Requires a captive audience.
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During which stage of brainwashing are prisoners most likely to cooperate with their captors and provide the information requested in order to obtain relief from the abuse and pressure?
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Change
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A cult involves following someone
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With a charismatic personality.
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"Racial profiling" by law enforcement in which specific racial groups are targeted for questioning or cited more often than other groups for minor infractions, such as illegal lane change is an example of
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Discrimination
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Santos perceives that members of another ethnic group are a threat to his obtaining a good job and receiving financial aid attend college. Santos is exhibiting ____ toward this other ethnic group.
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Personal prejudice
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