By Providing Prospective Terrorists with Electronic Chat Rooms for Interfacing

question 164

Multiple Choice

By providing prospective terrorists with electronic chat rooms for interfacing online with others who share their attitudes,the Internet most likely serves as a medium for

• A) social facilitation.
• B) groupthink.
• C) group polarization.
• D) cognitive dissonance.

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Definitions:

Recency Effect

The tendency to remember and place more importance on the most recently presented information or experiences.

High Distinctiveness

A feature or attribute that makes an individual or object stand out significantly from others in the same category or context.

Kelley's Covariation Model

A theory in psychology that describes the way people assign reasons to events by evaluating the event's consistency, distinctiveness, and the level of agreement among observers.

Internal Factor

Psychological or physiological conditions within an individual that influence their behaviors and decisions.