Question

Rachid, a psychology lecturer, discusses the positive aspects of mercy killing with his students. After a week, he discusses the negative aspects of mercy killing with the same group of students and asks for their opinions immediately. The students who initially seemed to support mercy killing vote against it. In the context of persuasion, this scenario illustrates ________.

Answer 1

Answer: Recency effect

Explanation:

Recency effect  is the effect in which recent information can be recalled easily for making a judgement than previous information that was presented earlier. Recently presented information is provided more preference as it provides best judgement.

According to the question,scenario is depicting about recency effect as students tend to vote negative aspects more than positive aspect because they remember recently taught negative aspects easily than earlier taught positive aspect of mercy killing.