How Do People Process Persuasive Information That Agrees with Their

question 99

Multiple Choice

How do people process persuasive information that agrees with their personal preferences and positions?

• A) They look for weaknesses in the message.
• B) They try to form counterarguments.
• C) They think deeply about the message.
• D) They don't expend the effort to look for flaws in the message.

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Definitions:

Confidence Interval

A spectrum of values obtained from statistics of a sample, which is likely to encompass the actual population parameter at a specific probability level.

Random Sample

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Checking Account Balance

The amount of money currently available in someone's checking account.

Confidence Interval

A range of values, derived from the statistics of observed data, that is believed to contain the true value of an unknown parameter with a certain probability.