Benefit Of Persuasion Study

There are many terms and concepts I have learned in class on the topic of persuasion. All are useful and helpful to know in their own way. I am going to focus on three of them that are more important me than the rest. They are the knowledge and awareness function, fear appeals, and motivation.

The best one to start off with here is the knowledge and awareness function. It is one of the four benefits of studying persuasion. The other three are the instrumental, defensive, and debunking function. To me, knowledge and awareness alone stand above the others simply because everyone has some knowledge and awareness of persuasion. Then the other three functions fall right into place. In our text book, it states that studying about persuasion can assist in overcoming habitual persuasion and that a good portion of our communication is mindless.
It also means that because you understand it yourself one can use it to their advantage. It may also be utilized to defend oneself and be more knowledgeable of what is and is not persuasive practice. Just being knowledgeable and aware of persuasion will help me in every aspect of life; everything from my friends and friends to my profession and academic career.

The next communication practice I will discuss is about fear appeals. Fear appeals are a form of persuasion which the advocate attempts including fear on some level into the receiver in order to achieve what they are after. Fear appeals at all levels of intensity are a common form of persuasion. To have an understanding of how fear appeals work, one must consider the three terms: danger and fear control, and perceived