A newspaper runs stories that suggest that most people in the country support cutting taxes. After reading the stories, people who support raising taxes tend to keep quiet because they think their neighbors all support tax cuts. This would be an example of which of the following?

A. agenda setting
B. spiral of silence
C. social learning
D. symbolic interactionism

B. spiral of silence

Communication & Mass Media

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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Which of the following shot combinations best illustrates a collision ideaassociative

montage?

a. house on fire—burning trees b. sports car racing along highway—shadow of jet plane on road following it c. mother holding child—female cat carrying kitten d. stray dog looking for food—lion looking for food e. mother loving her baby—war scene

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