A Favorable Image Is Affected by the Degree of Self-Disclosure

question 132

Multiple Choice

A favorable image is affected by the degree of self-disclosure of a person's thoughts, feelings, likes, and dislikes. Greater self-disclosure is likely to __________ one's influence on those reached.

• A)decrease
• B)not affect
• C)undermine
• D)manipulate
• E)increase

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Definitions:

Context Cues

Elements within the environment that provide guidance or clues for understanding situations, meanings, or behaviors.

Retention

The ability to maintain possession of information or material over time, especially in the context of learning and memory.

Priming

A psychological phenomenon where exposure to one stimulus influences the response to a subsequent stimulus, without conscious guidance.

Encoding

The initial learning of information; the process by which information is transformed into a representation that can be stored in memory.