Some Residents in Your Town Want to Build a New

question 42

Multiple Choice

Some residents in your town want to build a new elementary school, but others do not. You are leaning toward the pro-school camp. One day, you receive a flyer from the pro-school camp that warns you that the anti-school camp is going to hold a demonstration at a local park. The flyer briefly summarizes how the anti-school camp will attack the pro-school position. Further, the flyer asks you to think about how you can refute the attack before the demonstration occurs. The pro-school camp's strategy is an example of ________. It should ________ your resistance to stronger, more detailed attacks if you end up attending the demonstration.

• A) attitude inoculation; decrease
• B) attitude inoculation; increase
• C) thought polarization; increase
• D) thought polarization; decrease

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