Your Text Describes a Study in Which Researchers Recruited Single

question 9

Multiple Choice

Your text describes a study in which researchers recruited single, sexually active student volunteers to take part in a campaign (actually the experimental manipulation) supposedly designed to get other students who were just becoming sexually active to practice safe sex. The volunteers were asked to develop a persuasive speech about acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and safer sex that was then videotaped. Researchers found that the students who made the taped speeches were more likely to use condoms, a finding that is consistent with ____.

• A) social learning theory
• B) the stages of change model
• C) the health belief model
• D) cognitive dissonance

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