In Festinger's classic experiment, the college students who originally said the task was boring but changed their attitude about the boring task and said "it was interesting" were the ones that
a. had scored high in ethnocentrism.
b. had succumbed to groupthink.
c. were paid $20.
d. were paid $1.
D
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a. hippocampus b. pons c. medulla d. thalamus
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a. the motivation of the observer b. the emotional content of the material presented to the observer c. the physical characteristics of the stimulus that are not being investigated d. all of these
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