Your Office Uses Thermometers That Record Temperatures in Celsius,but the Mother

question 11

Multiple Choice

Your office uses thermometers that record temperatures in Celsius,but the mother of a young child doesn't understand what 38.6 $\degree$ Celsius means.Convert the temperature into Fahrenheit for her.

• A) 99\(\degree\) F
• B) 103.2\(\degree\) F
• C) 101.5\(\degree\) F
• D) 100.8\(\degree\) F

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Definitions:

Foot-in-the-door Technique

A compliance strategy used to persuade someone to agree to a large request by first getting them to agree to a modest request.

Persuasion

Persuasion is the act of convincing someone to change their beliefs, attitude, or behavior through argument, reasoning, or appeal to emotion.

Peripheral Route

A term from the Elaboration Likelihood Model of persuasion, referring to when a person is persuaded by something other than the argument or content of a message, such as attractiveness or celebrity endorsement.

Persuasive Argument

Communications designed to convince or influence an audience to accept a specific viewpoint or take a particular action.