Which of the following would be an example of priming in action? The evening news replays sound bites from local politicians each night on the evening news. A news viewer expects violent crime to escalate because the evening news starts with a violent crime each night. The evening news centers its coverage of a major city around violent crimes each night. The evening news regularly characterizes Democrats as soft on crime. The evening news consistently covers natural disasters and crimes and does little reporting on political developments.

A news viewer expects violent crime to escalate because the evening news starts with a violent crime each night.

Explanation:

Priming refers to the technique used in influencing response to stimulus whereby one is exposed to one stimulus and it is sure to cause influence to response to a subsequent stimulus, without one being consciously guided or doing it intentionally. For example the news viewer above will expect the news to start with violent crimes as the news has given the first stimulus of starting with violent crimes every night. Priming may also be perceptual, semantic, or conceptual.

a: social security and social programs

panem is a communist totalitarian dictatorship where all the resources and how they are allocated belongs to the capitol. the districts exist only to provide goods and services for the capital and most of the citizens live in poverty. it is a police state where the "peacekeepers" use force and threats to keep the people under control. dissent is outlawed and those who disobey the law are executed, flogged, or turned into avoxes. the games are another means in which the ruling elite in the capitol exert their power over the districts. when reading the books i drew parallels between panem and the soviet union and north korea. in no way is panem capitalist. the people in the capitol are wealthy but the majority of them are involved in the government somehow. it was the same way in the former soviet union where bigwigs in the communist party and high ranking government officials were given access to goods, services, medical treatments not available to the general public. if you think panem has a capitalist economy you need to brush up on your economics.