People who receive unwelcome, correcting information not only resist that challenge to their views, they come to hold their original, erroneous position even more strongly. This is known as ________

a. backfire effect
b. affective intelligence
c. motivated reasoning
d. sleeper effect


a

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Do you agree or disagree with the uncertainty reduction theory's assumption that as we increase our desire to be in a relationship with others, we utilize tactics to decrease uncertainty? Defend your answer

What will be an ideal response?

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When analyzing the four factors of the rhetorical situation, ethos is an important consideration related

to the A) speaker. B) audience. C) occasion. D) speech. E) Greeks.

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A) business B) feedforward C) feedback D) closing

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