Research by Landau and colleagues (2004), in which participants were exposed to subliminal images of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and then asked questions about then-President George W. Bush, leads to the conclusion that
a. the fear of death leads people to choose the central route to persuasion.
b. reminders of mortality lead people to prefer one-sided messages to two-sided messages.
c. fear arousal can influence even attitudes as important as political opinions.
d. the higher the level of fear arousal in a persuasive communication, the stronger the agreement with it.
c
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A. increasing serotonin reuptake. B. enhancing GABA's inhibitory effects. C. reducing blood flow to the cerebral cortex. D. first stimulating and then blocking cholinergic receptors.
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(a) he forgot to plug it in (b) he forgot to turn it on (c) he forgot to turn it off (d) he forgot to put a tape in (e) it had the control information in a natural mapping in the environment