Ronald browses a website that advocates strengthening gun control ...

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Ronald browses a website that advocates strengthening gun control in the United States. The website is full of statistics, graphs showing homicide trends, and charts breaking down the demographics of gun owners.
 
  The website is produced by a reputable think tank that Ronald has followed for many years. How will systematic and heuristic processing figure into Ronald's experience when browsing the website.

Question 2

According to the general aggression model, repeated exposure to aggressive models in films or video games may increase a person's level of aggressiveness by ________.
 
  a) weakening the effects of constraining factors on aggressive behaviors
  b) encouraging behavioral patterns involved with competitiveness, time urgency, and hostility
  c) strengthening knowledge structures such as beliefs, attitudes, and schemas that are related to aggression
  d) increasing the level of physiological arousal to the point at which people tend to seek catharsis

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Answer to Question 1

Ronald will use systematic processing when he experiences most of the content on the sitethe site's central message, the ideas it contains, and any facts and figuresas systematic processing involves careful consideration of information. Ronald will use heuristic processing, or a mental shortcut, when he immediately trusts the accuracy of the content based on the fact that it is delivered via a source that he considers to be expert.

Answer to Question 2

c

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