As you drive in to school,you hear a random radio-show caller arguing that sun exposure really has not been proven to cause skin cancer and that some research suggests that skin cancer is completely genetic and not related to sun exposure at all.At the time,you think that this is a silly argument and that the caller does not know what she is talking about.However,two months later,you go outside without wearing sunscreen and you find yourself remembering that you had read something about how the sun actually does not cause skin cancer.In this situation,________ has influenced your attitude.

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The sleeper effect occurs when we forget the source of information but remember the information itself. In this case, the caller's argument may have seemed silly at the time but after two months, the information remained in the listener's memory, leading to a change in attitude. This change in attitude is an example of the sleeper effect.

As You Drive in to School,you Hear a Random Radio-Show