People Sometimes Do the Exact Opposite of What Someone Is

question 158

Multiple Choice

People sometimes do the exact opposite of what someone is trying to persuade them to do. For example, when parents tell their children not to look in certain drawers or cabinets, children sometimes sneak peeks into these places just because they were told not to. In social psychology, this effect is known as "the boomerang effect," or ____.

• A) the inoculation effect
• B) negative attitude change
• C) the halo effect
• D) the sleeper effect

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Definitions:

W

A letter in the English alphabet, often used to represent work in physics or width in measurements.

CD

A compact disc, a digital optical data storage format used for storing digital audio, video, and data.

Inference Forms

Patterns of reasoning where the conclusion logically follows from the premises.

MP

An abbreviation often used for "Modus Ponens," a form of argument in logic where from "If P then Q" and "P" one concludes "Q."