At Nicholas's high school, a rumor was spread that the principal was having an affair with one of the teachers. While Nicholas didn't believe the rumor at first, the more he heard the rumor repeated, the more he accepted it as a fact. This is an example of .

a. the familiarity effect. b. brainwashing. c. cognitive dissonance. d. the validity effect.

John locke, an enlightenment-era philosopher, influenced the american movement for independence. locke believed that all people were entitled to natural rights. which quotation from the preamble to the declaration of independence refers to natural rights?

Which of the following selections is least useful for supporting the claim that states intentionally built unequal school systems? question 1 options: the supreme court ruling in plessy v. ferguson (1896) wrote into law that america had two separate societies: one black and one white. it was very clear by the mid-1900s that southern states had expertly built separate educational systems. these schools, however, were never equal. states with laws keeping schools segregated never gave equal amounts of money to their black and white schools. ten years after brown, fewer than 10 percent of southern public schools had integrated. some areas did not comply at all.

What does it signify if point 1 shifts down and to the right? a. the price level and the real gdp are falling. b. the real gdp is falling, and supply is increasing. c. the price level is rising, and production is increasing. d. the price level is falling, and demand and the real gdp are rising.