In an Experiment Conducted by Mordechai Blittner,Joel Goldblum,and Michael Merbaum

question 20

Multiple Choice

In an experiment conducted by Mordechai Blittner,Joel Goldblum,and Michael Merbaum (1978) ,smokers who wanted to quit responded to an ad for a 14-week treatment program.Some participants were told that they were selected for participation based on their "strong willpower and greater potential to control and conquer their desires and behaviour." This manipulation was designed to

• A)create positive attributions.
• B)boost participants' self-esteem.
• C)increase participants' sense of self-efficacy.
• D)decrease participants' susceptibility to learned helplessness.
• E)boost participants' mood.

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