Manuel conducted a study in a local high school about the effectiveness of humor in a television anti-smoking campaign. After the study was over, he discovered that a popular musician had died of lung cancer during the course of the campaign, and many students stopped smoking in her honor. This is an example of:
a. A problem with external validity
b. A problem with internal validity
c. A history effect
d. Both a problem with internal validity and a history effect
c
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A. avoidance B. accounts C. physical remediation D. tactful recovery
The Supreme Court said that an employee’s text messages on government equipment can be searched without violating privacy in:
a) Bartnicki v. Vopper; b) City of Ontario v. Quon; c) Cantrell v. Forest City Publishing Co.; d) Melvin v. Reid; e) Toffoloni v. LFP Publishing Group.
It is common for first broadcasting jobs to involve:
a. announcing b. news c. sales d. production e. both A & B f. both C & D
Cognitive Dissonance Theory predicts that people will remember and learn inconsistent information more easily than consistent information.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)