Your school produces a quick film about the dangers of alcohol poisoning. The video includes members of your student government telling stories about their experiences with friends getting sick or dying from consuming too much alcohol. Your school is using __________ to get you to change your attitude of acceptance around alcohol consumption.

A. cognitive dissonance
B. attribution
C. persuasion
D. bribery


Answer: C

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

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Bernstein applied principles of classical conditioning to the study of taste aversion in young patients undergoing chemotherapy. The children were given some unusually flavored ice cream just before the chemotherapy. Later, the children showed an aversion to that flavor of ice cream. In this example of classical conditioning, the queasiness to the ice cream was:

a. a conditioned response b. an unconditioned stimulus c. an unconditioned response d. a conditioned stimulus

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The _____ perspective emphasizes gender, ethnicity, race and cultural influences

Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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The trancelike state in which a subject responds readily to suggestions is ______

. a. Stage 4 sleep c. meditation . b. hypnosis d. coma

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