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Which scenario best illustrates someone soliciting information, and as a result, being affected by informational influence?
 
  a. A man is interested in buying a pickup truck, and goes online to different truck blogs and websites to gather information. He uses this information to help guide his decision-making about what trucks to test drive.
  b. A teenager asks her friends if they like a certain store. When they say yes, she declares that she likes it too, because she wants to seem cool.
  c. A professor asks her students whether they believe there are instances in which genocide is justified. She listens to their opinions and corrects them when they make inaccurate statements about history.
  d. A father asks his seven-year-old how she knows that it's dinnertime (he is testing her ability to read Roman numerals on the kitchen clock). When she explains what some of the numerals mean, he nods appreciably and pretends to have learned something.

Question 2

Suppose that Walter is happily married to Sara. If he is like most happily married heterosexual men, then, when asked to rate the attractiveness of various other women, he is most likely to devalue (rate as less attractive than they really are) ____.
 
  a. attractive single women who are his age
  b. attractive married women who are his age
  c. attractive married women who are younger than him
  d. attractive single women who are older than him



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Answer to Question 1

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