Your Text Describes a Study in Which Researchers Recruited Single

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Your text describes a study in which researchers recruited single, sexually active student volunteers to take part in a campaign (actually the experimental manipulation) supposedly designed to get other students who were just becoming sexually active to practise safe sex.The volunteers were asked to develop a persuasive speech about acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and safer sex that was then videotaped.Researchers found that the students who made the taped speeches were more likely to use condoms, a finding that is consistent with ____.

A) social learning theory
B) the stages of change model
C) the health belief model
D) cognitive dissonance