As You Drive in to School, You Hear a Random

question 33

Multiple Choice

As you drive in to school, you hear a random radio-show caller arguing that sun exposure really has not been shown to cause skin cancer, and that some research suggests that skin cancer is completely genetic and not related to sun exposure at all.At the time, you think that this is a silly argument and that the caller doesn't know what she is talking about.However, two months later, you are outside without wearing sunscreen, and you find yourself remembering that you had read something about how the sun actually doesn't cause skin cancer.This process is evidence that the ________________ has influenced your attitude.

• A) the peripheral route to persuasion
• B) the sleeper effect
• C) the central route to persuasion
• D) the utilitarian function of attitudes

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