The Tendency to Pay Attention to Messages Consistent with One's

question 347

Multiple Choice

The tendency to pay attention to messages consistent with one's attitudes and beliefs and to ignore messages that are inconsistent with them is referred to as

• A) selective retention.
• B) selective comprehension.
• C) selective exposure.
• D) selective perception.
• E) stimulus discrimination.

Understand stimulus-independent thoughts and their implications for cognitive processing.

Understand the phenomenon of social contagion and its implications in group behaviors.

Differentiate between different types of learning, specifically social learning, and their mechanisms.

Grasp the concepts of descriptive and injunctive norms and their roles in social behavior.

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