What Was Theodore Mita and His Colleagues Trying to Illustrate

question 44

Multiple Choice

What was Theodore Mita and his colleagues trying to illustrate through their experiment when they reasoned that people are more exposed to their mirrored facial images than they are to their true facial images and thus should have more positive attitudes toward the former than the latter?

• A) Cognitive dissociation
• B) Mere exposure effect
• C) Self-adoration
• D) Elaboration likelihood feeling

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Definitions:

AntiAromatic

Refers to organic compounds that are cyclic, conjugated, contain a planar ring system, but do not follow Huckel's rule, resulting in increased instability.

Pyrrole

A heterocyclic aromatic organic compound, a five-membered ring with the formula C4H5N, containing a nitrogen atom.

π Network

A conjugated system in organic chemistry characterized by alternating single and multiple bonds that allow for delocalization of π electrons over multiple atoms.

Aromatic

Refers to compounds that contain one or more planar, cyclic arrangements of atoms with delocalized π-electrons, following Huckel's rule.