In His Persuasive Speech,Brendan Argues,"What Starving People Need First Is

question 46

Multiple Choice

In his persuasive speech,Brendan argues,"What starving people need first is food and clean water-not counseling about the sad state of their governments,not advice about ways to attract new industry,and not pity over the loss of their self-esteem." What principle of persuasive speaking is Brendan effectively utilizing?

• A)The principle of cognitive dissonance and negative motivation.
• B)The principle of presenting more advantages than disadvantages.
• C)The principle of creating gradual,rather than sudden,change in listeners.
• D)The principle that basic needs must be satisfied before higher-level ones.

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Definitions:

Oral

Relating to the mouth, including the act of speaking, intake of food, or in medical terms, medication taken by mouth.

Fixation

An obsessive focus or attachment to a developmental stage, person, or object.

Psychosexual Development

A Freudian theory that describes the stages of a child's development focusing on the changes in erogenous zones that drive the psychological processes.

Thanatos

In psychoanalytic theory, the death drive, representing an unconscious desire for destruction and an instinctual pull towards death.