Comm Theory Review Questions Elaboration Likelihood Model Owner: Richard Petty & John Cacioppo 1. Identify and explain the two mental routes to attitude change. Are these routes mutually exclusive? What separates the twin poles on the cognitive continuum? Central Route: Message elaboration; the path of cognitive processing that involves scrutiny of message content. Peripheral Route: No message elaboration; a mental shortcut process that accepts or rejects a message based on irrelevant
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Ad Hominem An argument based on the failings of an adversary rather than on the merits of the case; a logical fallacy that involves a personal attack. Allegory Extending a metaphor so that objects‚ persons‚ and actions in a text are equated with meanings that lie outside the text. Alliteration The repetition of an initial consonant sound. Allusion A brief‚ usually indirect reference to a person‚ place‚ or event--real or fictional. Ambiguity The presence of two or more possible meanings
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Sex-Selective Abortions in China Part A: Ethical Issue & Importance The news article selected for the ethical analysis is based on the ‘One Child Policy of China’; many ethical issues arise from this article and topic in general. The ethical issue that has been chosen for analysis is whether or not sex-selective abortions are ethical for families to have a desired sex of a child in China. Although the ethical issues behind abortion in general is very large‚ this analysis will focus
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of statistical data – numerical‚ categorical‚ and ordinal. Numerical data can be broken out into two groups: Discrete Data and Continuous Data. Numerical data covers measurement. Discrete data represents items that can be counted versus continuous data represents measurements (values which cannot be counted and can only be described using intervals on the number line). Categorical data represents characteristics. Ordinal data mixes both numerical and categorical data. The data falls into categories
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The passage inspected above relates to morality in his work‚ Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals. Kant states‚ that laws of morality are laws that go according to which everything ought to happen. They allow for conditions in which humans naturally tend to make‚ rather than forcing humans to completely change their behavior. Laws of morality try not to include negative behavior‚ rather it promotes positive behavior that may come natural to a human being. Mankind is limited by the fact that each
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In this essay I will present an argument to show that Kantian Deontology is not a plausible moral theory because the two fundamental principles from Kant’s Categorical Imperatives are unable to account for the permissibility of certain acts that would otherwise be considered immoral. This would discredit the usefulness of Kant’s theory as a moral guideline because individuals would then be able to commit acts - those of which would be considered immoral according to considered moral judgements -
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Making the World a Better Place Philosophy 1001‚ Dr. Cara Nine ‘Better Place’? ‘Making the world...’? Making the world a better place There are two sets of philosophical questions: 1. What is ‘good’ or ‘better’? (That is‚ what does a ‘better world look like and why?) 2. What kinds of actions are ‘right’? (What are we justified in doing to bring about the good?) Ideas of the good life Hedonism Desire Satisfaction Theory Objective Goods Theory Theories of Right Action Utilitarian
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Violence in sport has become far too commonplace. Aggressive sports such as football and hockey involve many aggressive tactics; however far too often do these aggressive tactics become overshadowed by deliberate acts of violence with the intent to cause bodily harm to an opponent. Many professional and non-profession athletes‚ as well as coaches‚ have adapted the mentality that winning is the common goal that all who participate in sport strive for and therefore feel that engaging in violent acts
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Immanuel Kant’s philosophical views of human nature and the ethical systems that govern human actions are primarily summed up in his composition of the "Categorical Imperative.” By his own logic‚ Kant attempted to describe the mechanics of nature and the morality of mankind. As Mitchell states: Indeed‚ as Kant showed us‚ the world appears to operate according to the principle of cause and effect‚ and our shared agreement of this interpretation allows us to reason about the world. (Mitchell‚ 259)
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achieve a certain goal. An example of this would be that Kant observed that the word ‘ought’ is often used none morally‚ for example ‘if you want to become a better artist or guitarist‚ you ought to practice’. On the other hand Kant also proposed the Categorical Imperative‚ these are moral commands that can be universalised and do not depend on anything else. Whereas
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