The process of making an evaluation about someone based on a first impression is called

A) horms effect.
B) recency effect.
C) primacy effect.
D) halo effect.


C

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Jones is a reporter for Channel 10. Jones interviews Kennedy about a group that robs elderly people’s houses in the community. Jones says Kennedy’s name will not appear in the story. But the Channel 10 news producer insists Kennedy’s name be part of the story. After Kennedy hears the story, Kennedy sues Jones, the news producer, and Channel 10 for breaking Jones’s promise. Kennedy will ______.

a. win because the U.S. Supreme Court and other courts have said the First Amendment does not protect reporters who break confidentiality promises b. lose because the producer ordered Jones to reveal Kennedy’s name; Jones did not do so voluntarily c. lose because the U.S. Supreme Court and other courts have said the First Amendment protects reporters who break confidentiality promises d. lose because no one can sue for a broken oral promise, only for violating a written contract

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Facts are considered to ________

A) have been verified B) be common knowledge C) be generally accepted as true D) all of the above

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Areopagitica was a famous early defense of freedom of expression. Its author was:

a) Ben Franklin; b) J.J. Rousseau, c) John Milton; d) Thomas Jefferson; e) John Locke.

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The former newspaper reporter who organized the Committee on Public Information for the U.S. Government during World War I was:

a. Ivy Lee. b. Edward L. Bernays. c. Elmer Davis. d. George Creel.

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