Question

Research by Leventhal and his colleagues (1967) was described in the text. In the experiment, the researchers showed one group of smokers a film depicting the ravages of lung cancer, gave another group of smokers a pamphlet with instructions on how to quit smoking, and exposed a third group to both the film and the pamphlets. People in the last group reduced their smoking significantly more than people in the other two groups because __________.fear was aroused and they were provided a means to reduce that fearthey were relatively light smokersthe combination increased their confidence in their ability to quitprior to the study, they reported more failed attempts to quit

Answer 1

Fear was aroused and they were provided a means to reduce that fear.

Step-by-step explanation:

Fear is simply defined as a physical reaction to danger. It is usually accompanied by feelings of dread or a sense of being threatened. Human when expose to the dangers of substance abuse and real life scenarios of the effect will tend to draw back or stol the use of such substance.