Persuasion Is the Process of

question 50

Multiple Choice

Persuasion is the process of

• A)helping an audience understand a procedure.
• B)encouraging an audience to think about a topic in a different way.
• C)entertaining an audience without being too obvious.
• D)changing or reinforcing attitudes,beliefs,and values.

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Definitions:

Ambivalent

Having mixed or contradictory feelings about someone or something.

Psychosexual Development

Freud's theory that childhood stages of development (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital) affect an individual's adult personality.

Superego

Part of the Freudian psychoanalytic theory, representing the ethical component of personality that provides the moral standards by which the ego operates.

Ego

In psychoanalytic theory, the part of the personality that mediates between the demands of the id, superego, and reality.