Name and define the two factors that, according to the Elaboration Likelihood Model, impact the route through which persuasion can occur
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Motivation: the desire to process message arguments. High motivation is associated with central processing, and low motivation with peripheral processing. Ability: If the person has the time, the knowledge, and the cognitive resources available to process message arguments carefully, the central route will be taken. Otherwise, the peripheral will be followed.
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One of the best known investigations in the area of psychology was performed at
the Hawthorne Works of the Western Electric Company. The reason for the research, which led to the so-called Hawthorne effect, was to (a) find better ways to gain worker satisfaction so that turnover would be reduced (b) show that scientific management simply did not work, because it was not really scientific (c) find the optimal level of illumination for assembly workers (d) discover whether there were expectancy effects among the workers (e) all of the above