For Joel Cooper, dissonance is generated by:

A) high self-esteem.
B) the knowledge that one's actions have unnecessarily hurt another person.
C) low self-esteem.
D) the fact that we are rationalizing, rather than rational, animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves.


B) the knowledge that one's actions have unnecessarily hurt another person.

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Which of the following statements is accepted by both existential and humanistic psychology?

a. Humans are victims of circumstance and are not fully responsible for their actions. b. Elementism of any type gives a distorted view of humans. c. Studying nonhuman animals provides a glimpse into the primal self. d. Humans are basically good and live in peace and harmony unless forced to do otherwise.

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Of the following, which was described by Walter Langer as being unable "to develop an intimate relationship with others that sustained adversity because he saw others as untrustworthy?"

A. Julius Caesar B. Josef Stalin C. Adolf Hitler D. Saddam Hussein

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Sally is concerned that her infant son will experience great pain during the circumcision procedure. Her husband Quinton suggests infants do not feel pain and their son will be fine without the use of a local anesthesia. What statement represents recent

views of expert’s relative to an infant’s ability to feel pain? a) Infants do not feel pain and no anesthesia is necessary to alleviate their son’s pain during circumcision. b) All infant boys experience long-lasting pain due to circumcision and therefore should be given general anesthesia during the procedure. c) Infants feel pain and local anesthesia should be used to alleviate their son’s pain during circumcision. d) Any pain experienced by an infant is short-lived, and, therefore, no anesthesia is needed for the circumcision procedure.

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