The Narcotizing Dysfunction Can Desensitize an Audience to Suffering and Can

question 27

True/False

The narcotizing dysfunction can desensitize an audience to suffering and can influence the degree to which that audience might conclude that a solution to a crisis has already been found.

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Definitions:

Inferred

Deduced or concluded information from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements.

Performance

A measure of how effectively a person or system completes tasks or achieves goals.

Cognitive Dissonance

The psychological discomfort experienced when holding two or more conflicting cognitions (beliefs, attitudes, or behaviors).

Conditioning

The process of learning associations between environmental events and behavioral responses, crucial in behaviorist theories of learning.