Bethany has been listening to a political speaker who is encouraging people to support a law that would require all people to recycle aluminum cans and severely penalize those who do not recycle

The speaker is giving strong arguments in favor of this proposed law and is couching his appeal in moral and ethical language. As a result, Bethany is becoming increasingly annoyed and resentful of the speaker and his arguments. She may be experiencing ________. a) biased assimilation
b) acceptance
c) cognitive dissonance
d) reactance


d

Psychology

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Viktor Frankl's experience with __________ led to his development of __________

a. psychotic parents; logotherapy b. psychotic children; client-centered therapy c. concentration camps; ego-analytic psychotherapy d. concentration camps; logotherapy

Psychology

The specific form that a sentence takes is called its __________ structure, and the meaning

of a specific sentence is called its __________ structure. a. syntactical; semantic b. surface; deep c. semantic; syntactical d. deep; surface e. compound; simple

Psychology

Four-year-old MaKayla's hamster died. A few days later, MaKayla told her mom that the hamster died because she was mad at him for chewing on her bookmark. MaKayla is having trouble understanding the death concept of

A) permanence. B) inevitability. C) applicability. D) causation.

Psychology