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B. After reading the textbook passage passage below, answer the questions ox llo

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B. After reading the textbook passage passage below, answer the questions ox llone te mere exposure «ffect-the tendency to lke someone beter samplye y college students were shown pictures of faces. 'Some of the faces were much they liked each face and how much they thought they times; others, only once or twice. Afterward, subjects indicated w would like the person more often the subjects had seen a face. the more they said they liked in would like the person. The same result has been found for repeated exposure to actual people. 'In a recent study college women who served as confederates in an ail women were rated as equally attractive. In the study, each woman attended a largo lecture class in social psychology. posing as a student in the course. researchers enlisted the aid of four experiment. "A pretest showed that "Each woman ten times, or fifteer term. "At the end of the term, students in the class were asked to rate IThe more often students had attended a different number of class sessions-once, five times, e times during the each woman, based on a casual photo shown as a slide. seen the woman, the more they thought they would like her. 7. Fill in the blank: The main idea of the paragraph is expressed in sentence 8. The supporting details are A. reasons to like someone. B. )studies that illustrate and prove the mere exposure C. examples of classroom behavior D. ways in which students rate people they don't know. effect. 9. How many supporting details are in the passage? B. Two C. Three Four 10. Write the letter of the summary that best completes the study notes of the paragraph. Study notes: Mere exposure effect- the tendency to like someone better simply because of frequent exposure to him or her A. In one study, college students were shown pictures of faces, some as many as twenty-five times. thought they would like her once, five, ten, or fifteen times during the term. B. The more often students saw each of four women in their class, the more they C. Four women who were rated as equally attractive attended a large lecture class

Explanation / Answer

This passage is explaining the mere exposure effect-tendency to like someone simply because of frequent exposure to him/her that has been observed in studies.