Imagine That You Have to Convince an Audience to Adopt

question 21

Multiple Choice

Imagine that you have to convince an audience to adopt your opinion on health-care reform, but the specific arguments you present are weak. According to research on attitude change, what should you do to increase your chances of being persuasive?

• A) make eye contact with as many audience members as possible
• B) state your arguments with confidence
• C) ensure that people are paying close attention to what you are saying
• D) emphasize how health-care reform is highly relevant to everyone in the audience

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Definitions:

Waste Products

Substances produced through metabolic and other processes in organisms that are no longer needed and are excreted or removed.

Musculomembranous Tube

A type of biological tube consisting of muscle and membrane layers, such as the gastrointestinal tract.

Bladder

A hollow organ in the lower abdomen that stores urine from the kidneys before it is excreted from the body.

UA

An abbreviation that can refer to many things, depending on the context, such as Urinalysis, a common medical test.