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dmcintosh

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Automatic, unthinking consistency is a dangerous thing. Yet, in Influence, it was stated that many times we find it attractive. Why?
 
  (a) It offers one shortcut to use in deciding how to behave when we don't have the time to examine all the evidence.
  (b) Because we have a deep-seated need for occasional danger.
  (c) Because even unthinking consistency is preferable to emotional responding.
  (d) None of the above.

Question 2

In Influence several factors were discussed that increased the ability of a commitment to produce changes in a person's self-image and future action. Which of the following is not such a factor? When the commitment is:
 
  (a) active.
  (b) effortful.
  (c) public.
  (d) perceived as internally motivated.
  (e) none of the above; they are all such factors.



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Answer to Question 1

ANSWER: A

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER: E



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