Your Text Describes a Study in Which Researchers Recruited Single

question 9

Multiple Choice

Your text describes a study in which researchers recruited single, sexually active student volunteers to take part in a campaign (actually the experimental manipulation) supposedly designed to get other students who were just becoming sexually active to practice safe sex. The volunteers were asked to develop a persuasive speech about acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and safer sex that was then videotaped. Researchers found that the students who made the taped speeches were more likely to use condoms, a finding that is consistent with ____.

• A) social learning theory
• B) the stages of change model
• C) the health belief model
• D) cognitive dissonance

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Definitions:

Bananas

A type of edible fruit that is elongated and curved, with soft flesh rich in starch covered by a peel.

Perfect Complements

Goods that are often used together in fixed proportions, where the consumption of one item necessarily involves the consumption of the other.

Income Effect

The change in an individual's or economy's consumption patterns due to a change in real income, reflecting how increases or decreases in income can affect buying habits.

Substitution Effect

The alteration in purchasing behavior caused by variations in the relative costs of products, prompting buyers to opt for less expensive alternatives over pricier ones.