What does the research suggest about the role of distraction in persuasion?

a. Distracting your audience always decreases persuasion.
b. Distracting your audience always increases persuasion.
c. Distracting your audience decreases persuasion when you have a strong argument, but increases persuasion when you have a weak argument.
d. Distracting your audience decreases persuasion when you have a weak argument, but increases persuasion when you have a strong argument.


C

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a. ?latent learning b. ?respondent learning c. ?operant conditioning d. ?observational conditioning

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