The vividness effect is the tendency of dramatic, shocking events to distort our perceptions of reality.

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


True

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Which of the following contributed to the growth of public relations in the 1960s?

a. increasing activism, like the Civil Rights movement b. opening of PR agencies, like Burson-Marsteller c. rise of issue-based activism, like Greenpeace d. using PR for non-profit organizations, like the Red Cross

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Cultures in Central and South American countries that believe that outside forces such as fate or luck control their lives fall under what time orientation?

A) past-oriented cultures B) present-oriented cultures C) future-oriented cultures D) all of the above

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The stage of reducing equivocality at which an organization makes a note of what worked or what did not so that it can make good decisions in the future is

A. ambivalence B. retention C. selection D. conclusion

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Compare and contrast the fundamental attribution error and the self-serving bias as common attribution errors.

What will be an ideal response?

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