If a persuasive speaker causes you to become uncomfortable with your own position or view on an issue, the speaker has successfully used a strategy known as cognitive dissonance

Indicate whether the statement is true or false


True

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Which one of the following questions is content analysis unable to answer?

a. Have representations of women in industry changed over time? b. Does the level of violence depicted on cable television differ from that depicted on network television? c. What occupations do minority characters mostly play in television comedies? d. Does violent television content cause insensitivity to violence? e. Does the xxxx newspaper favor one party in its political reporting?

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Sound travels at this many feet per second:

a. 800 b. 1,000 c. 1,100 d. 1,500

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The most common structure for a print news story is the inverted pyramid. That means:

a. the most important information should be in the lastpart of the story b. the most important information should be somewherein the third to fifth paragraphs of the story c. the writer should not make any judgments about theimportance of the information but should tell what hap pened in chronological order d. the most important information should be in the first paragraph of the story

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Which speech is most likely to be a report?

A) ?How Honeybees Communicate B) ?Loyalty: What Is It? C) ?Birthday Customs Around the World D) ?Educational Vouchers: Pros and Cons E) ?The Great Wall of China

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