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Which principle(s) BEST explains why adding “even a penny will help” will increase the success of fundraising requests?

Nena is trying to decide if a job offer she has just received is a good or bad offer. I just don’t feel good about it, she thinks. Based on this feeling, Nena decides it is a bad offer. Nena’s decision process is consistent with the ________________ hypothesis. [BLANK-1]

When people are tired, their mental energy levels drop, and they become susceptible to false statements.

Suppose that Ana is given the opportunity to try out three different kinds of hotdogs, and suppose that Odin is given the opportunity to try out twelve different kinds of hot dogs. After trying the hot dogs, they get the chance to buy hot dogs. Research suggests that ____.

Two political candidates—Candidate A and Candidate B—run a series of negative advertisements about one another. Research suggests that ____.

Your cousin asks you to pledge $5.00 for a school charity one year. The next year, she asks you to pledge $20.00. And the following year, she asks you to pledge $50.00. Even though you would have never agreed to pledge $50.00 the first year, her “gradual buildup approach” is successful. In social psychology, this approach to persuasion is known as the ____.

Round [m][x],[n] to the nearest ten thousand.

Suppose that in the Venn diagram above, Region I has [i] elements. Region II has [ii] elements. Region III has [iii] elements. Region IV has [iv] elements. Region V has [v] elements. Region VI has [vi] elements. Region VII has [vii] elements. Region VIII has [viii] elements. How many elements are in B or C, but not A?

In the previous question, we started with two 1’s to get the sequence going. What if we started with [a] and [b] instead? Then the third number in the sequence would be [a]+[b]. Similar to how you performed the arithmetic for the previous question, determine the eighth number in the sequence, using [a] and [b] as the first two numbers. What is that eighth number?

Let , , and . Determine the elements of