"Live fast and die young, that's what I always say," Rosie pronounces, as she stuffs down three more Ding-Dong snack cakes and opens another pint of high-fat ice cream. Rosie knows that her diet is unhealthy and harmful, of course
To reduce her dissonance, Rosie is
a. changing her behavior to bring it in line with her cognitions.
b. changing a problem cognition to make it more consonant with her behavior.
c. adding a cognition that is consonant with her problem behavior.
d. engaging in self-affirmation to combat cognitive dissonance.
Answer: C
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a. experimental control must be very tight. b. it is often difficult to control for all of the potential confounding variables. c. field research is rarely done. d. potential confounding variables are easily identified.
People with severe, uncontrollable epilepsy, who have frequent grand mal seizures, have been helped by an operation that _____
a) severs the communication between hemispheres. b) removes excitatory neurons. c) severs the substantia nigra and basal ganglia. d) removes most of the right hemisphere.
Bandura proposed this term, which refers to the notion that cognitive processes, behavior, and the environment all mutually influence each other.
a. Learning theory b. Reciprocal determinism c. Observational learning d. Self-efficacy
Operations, Contents, and Products are elements of
a) Two-factor theory b) group Factor theory c) the hierarchical model d) the Structure of Intellect model