Cacioppo and Colleagues Measured Students' Need for Cognition and Then

question 106

Multiple Choice

Cacioppo and colleagues measured students' need for cognition and then asked them to read an editorial supposedly written by a journalism student arguing all seniors should be required to pass a comprehensive exam to graduate.This argument was highly relevant to all participants.Half of the participants read strong arguments for the exam,and the other half read unconvincing arguments for the exam.Which of the following did the results NOT include?

• A)Participants were more favorable toward the exam when it was supported by strong arguments.
• B)Participants high in need for cognition were especially likely to approve of the proposal when it was supported by strong arguments.
• C)Participants high in need for cognition were especially likely to disapprove of the proposal when it was supported by weak arguments.
• D)All participants processed the arguments through the central route to persuasion.

Understand and apply the concept of adjusting entries and their effect on financial statements.

Know the order of preparing financial statements and the significance of each in financial accounting.

Understand how to prepare an income statement using information from an income statement column in a worksheet.

Analyze and categorize different types of accounts, their normal balances, and the financial statements they appear in.

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Definitions:

Episodic Memory

Memory for specific events and experiences.

Automatization

The process by which a skill becomes automatic with practice, requiring less conscious thought and effort to perform.

Spreading Activation

A mechanism within associative networks that explains how information is retrieved in the brain, where thinking about one concept activates related concepts.

Lexical Decision Task

A psychological experiment in which participants decide as quickly as possible whether a given string of letters is a real word or a non-word.