Your text describes several situations in which a person may decide to behave immorally, a behavior which is likely to arouse a fair amount of cognitive dissonance
How are people most likely to reduce this dissonance stemming from an immoral act such as lying or cheating?
a. change the behavior and act morally
b. add cognitions
c. change their attitude about the immoral behavior
d. bolster their decision through downward social comparison
Answer: C
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Therapist Charlotte Maley is a behaviorist. She is most likely to suggests that depression is
a. due to unresolved unconscious conflicts. b. the result of losses or shortfalls in reinforcement levels. c. a matter of how people interpret events. d. genetic in origin but influenced by early trauma. e. the result of interruptions of one's sense of self-actualization.
Suppose you flip a fair coin five times and get a "heads" each time. Your friend insists that your next flip certainly will come up as "tails." Is your friend correct?
a. No, though the gambler's fallacy makes us think this, it is not a guarantee that the next flip will be "tails." b. Yes, due to the gambler's fallacy. c. No, it probably is impossible to get "tails" with this particular coin. d. While you should get "tails," you're probably more likely to get "heads."
One advantage of the labeling theory of passionate love is that it helps to explain
A) the three components of love. B) changing dating behaviors of contemporary adolescents. C) the importance of companionate love. D) why some adolescents may feel deepened love even when they experience continual rejections or hurt from someone to whom they are attracted.
What is the term for the process by which information is initially recorded, stored, and retrieved?
a) Encoding b) Automatization c) Categorization d) Memory capabilities