According to Protection Motivation Theory,fear Appeals Should Work to Eliminate

question 5

Multiple Choice

According to protection motivation theory,fear appeals should work to eliminate dangerous health practices if

• A) they do not mention any details of how to cope with the danger
• B) the fear messages are extremely frightening
• C) attractive or well-known people are the ones presenting the fear messages
• D) they include an effective presentation of how to cope with the danger

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Definitions:

Ebbinghaus

A psychologist best known for his research on memory and the forgetting curve, which describes how information is lost over time when there is no attempt to retain it.

Nonsense Syllables

Strings of letters that do not follow grammatical rules and have no meaning, used in psychological experiments to study memory and learning.

Methodology

The system of methods followed in a particular discipline or field of study.

Forgetting

The inability to bring to mind information that was previously remembered.