It's the end of the semester, your brain is fried, and you just can't come up with a
creative topic for your persuasive speech. As a last resort, you pick up the daily newspaper and
decide on a topic by looking at one of the headlines.
Is this advisable?
a. No; it is a form of plagiarism when you get speech topics from a newspaper.
b. No; newspapers offer boring material which do not make for a good topic.
c. Yes, but topics generated from newspapers take much longer to develop than others.
d. Yes; scanning newspaper headlines may be an effective strategy to find a speech topic.
d
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a. decreasing dependence on technology b. the friction between coworkers generated by office politics c. organizational cultures' encouragement of dynamic relationships d. the negative personal environment that workers create with negative attitudes about their job
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
1. Manifested effects and fluctuation effects are the same thing. 2. Fluctuation is usually temporary and after a brief period of time the risk level returns to the base level. 3. If you have been conditioned so that your baseline is close to your manifestation level, it takes a lot of media exposure to result in a media effect being observed in you. 4. Cognitive abilities have no influence on establishing a person’s baseline for media effects. 5. People with the largest amount of knowledge learn the most from the media.