A married senator was caught in a seedy motel with an unknown woman

To mitigate the damage done to the senator's reputation, his PR representative started a campaign that emphasized that this was an isolated incident, and that the senator had an unblemished record prior to this transgression. The PR officer also focused on the fact that the senator was an honest family man who had done a lot for his community.
What strategy did the PR representative use?
a) Bolstering
b) Minimizing
c) Differentiating
d) Compensating

a

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What will be an ideal response?

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Replacing the thought, "Everyone will laugh at my speech because I sound so dumb" with "I've done my research and I know what I'm talking about" is an example of

a. visualization. b. cognitive restructuring. c. selective relaxation. d. rhetoric-therapy.

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