You hope you can convince a group of people that torture is never acceptable. If you try to warm them to your ideas before you make your most persuasive statements, you are using the boomerang effect.

When talking to people in wheelchairs, many of us talk slowly and

loudly because A. it helps the wheelchair people understand. B. wheelchair people are usually hard of hearing. C. it gives them time to make eye contact. D. of unconscious stereotyping. E. it is recommended in the text.

______ refers to losing one’s cultural identity and not having any psychological contact with the larger society.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).