What does the knowledge gap hypothesis predict about the effects of new information technology?
What will be an ideal response?
ANS: As new information technologies diffuse throughout society, those who already have some educational or financial advantage, or who are most familiar with previous technologies, will be better able to take advantage of the advances. Thus, the gap will increase because the information-poor cannot catch up.
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A) productive communication climate B) defensive communication climate C) supportive communication climate D) None of these answers are correct.
Overattribution is essentially the same thing as the primacy effect.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)