Aronson and His Colleagues Found That He Was Best Able

question 55

Multiple Choice

Aronson and his colleagues found that he was best able to convince students to use condoms regularly when:

• A) they were exposed to a high-fear campaign detailing the awful consequences of getting AIDS
• B) they were reminded of their own failures to use condoms and they made a speech advocating condom use
• C) they could obtain condoms for free by simply asking for them
• D) they were given an embarrassing "lesson" on how to use and remove them

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Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values.

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