When someone challenges you to take a test, you generally take them up on it. Just look at all the tests people are sharing on Facebook these days.
Let's say you are asked to watch closely to see if any street scene passers by are noticing a new model of a car parked by the sidewalk. You would mostly likely try it.
Students who have taken my Psychology of Advertising classes easily recognize this technique as an example of the Elaboration Likelihood Model of persuasion. To persuade in a memorable manner, messages must garner attention, hold attention, and invite the audience to think. Thinking is called "elaboration" in this conceptual model, hence the theory's name.
So now, take the test.
So now, take the test.
The results of effective elaboration messages have been shown to be longer lasting attitude change as well as attitudes that are more resistant to competing messages. You have been thinking about the new Skoda Fabia.
Advertising scholars will remember a classic 1972 VW Beetle commercial that also used this "attention test" idea.
Both the Skoda and VW commercials are quite admirable. Think about them.
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