Anabel had planned to buy a foreign car when one of her friends mentions that Tom Cruise drives a domestic car. Based on the assumption that Tom Cruise wouldn't buy anything that wasn't top quality, Anabel decided to buy the domestic car instead. In this instance, she reached her decision using the:
a. central route to persuasion
b. cognitive dissonance model
c. peripheral route to persuasion
d. self-serving route to persuasion
C
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which included critical lures among the items. Their work illustrated __________. a. misinformation acceptance b. repressed memories c. implicit memory d. false memories
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A. Object permanence B. Conservation C. Animistic thinking D. Egocentrism
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a. frequent and generally occur between words b. infrequent and generally occur between words c. infrequent and generally occur in the middle of words d. possible only at the ends of sentences