Module Review


1		Biased media coverage, or , can help persuade audiences to agree with controversial political positions or government actions.


2		Cult indoctrination utilizes compliance to breed . In addition, cults recruit new members by eliciting commitments through the phenomenon.


3		Successful cults have a leader, and use vivid, messages.


4		A prior public to one's position, stimulated perhaps by a attack on the position, breeds resistance to later persuasion. The attack on one's belief stimulates one to develop that immunize against further attacks.


5		A prior public to one's position, stimulated perhaps by a attack on the position, breeds resistance to later persuasion. The attack on one's belief stimulates one to develop that immunize against further attacks.


6		Large-scale programs have been successful in inoculating children against peer pressure to and against the influence of . Inoculation research suggests we can build our own resistance to persuasion by being listeners and thinkers.