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:

Population Variance

A measure of how data points in a population are spread out from the mean.

T Distribution

A type of probability distribution that is symmetrical and bell-shaped like the normal distribution but has heavier tails, used especially for small sample sizes.

Degrees Of Freedom

The total count of values that can change in the ultimate calculation of a statistical figure.

Standard Normal Distribution

A bell-shaped distribution that has a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one, used in probability and statistics.