Tara Sees an Ad for Quick Weight Loss

question 43

Multiple Choice

Tara sees an ad for quick weight loss.She has been thinking about losing some weight before her cousin's birthday party.Some research indicates that she may want to believe the ad because she wants it to be true,so she convinces herself that the product will work.This type of information processing is called

• A) motivated reasoning.
• B) felt involvement.
• C) image-based reasoning.
• D) enduring involvement.
• E) fad reasoning.

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