You have a very difficult class and you are thinking about dropping it. You estimate that you currently have an F in the class. You make an appointment with the professor, who encourages you to stay in the class. She tells you that you can still earn an A, and she gives you good reasons for believing that you can. The professor, in this instance, has used persuasion to keep you enrolled in the class.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)


True

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A. True B. False

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As he drove out of the driveway, he saw his wife waving but did not realize that she wanted him to stop to avoid running over the tricycle. He thought she was just waving good-bye. The problem in this nonverbal episode is that we

A. have many ways to say good-bye, including handshakes, hugging, and waving. B. use a variety of cues to communicate the same meaning. C. have a one-to-one relationship between signal and meaning, so that one cue has one meaning. D. use the same cue to communicate a variety of meanings.

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Static evaluation is the

A) failure to acknowledge the other person or that person's definition of self. B) failure to distinguish the uniqueness among items because they are all labeled by the same term. C) denial of change. D) tendency to divide the world into two extreme categories.

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According to the textbook, the timing dimension of a media effect refers to:

a. a viewer’s maturity level when experiencing the effect b. how long an effect lasts c. when evidence of the effect starts to show up d. none of the above

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