All interruptions are not judged equally. One study found that listeners had the most positive judgments of interruptions that ______.
a. changed the subject
b. challenged what the speaker was saying
c. did not change the topic of conversation
d. were not seen as intentional
b. challenged what the speaker was saying
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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
Big Brother, a reality show about individuals living together, is produced with local casts in the country in which that edition is broadcast. It is an example of what principle?
a) Glocal b) Globalization c) Regionalization d) National Imperialism
After the airing of Morley Safer’s The Burning of the Village of Cam Ne, the public:
a) believed the film was a positive portrayal of what was occurring in Vietnam; b) stopped watching the CBS Evening News in large numbers’ c) believed journalists had a right to criticize the military; d) believed the presentation was one-sided; e) all of the above
White people in America are not usually asked to speak for all white people, can be confident that if they're nice, most people will be nice back to them, and can do well in a challenging situation without people considering them a credit to their race. These facts are due to which phenomenon?
a. white privilege b. the rhetoric of whiteness c. the whiteness standpoint d. core symbols of whiteness