Shawna Is on a Diet and Doing Very Well,losing About

question 119

Multiple Choice

Shawna is on a diet and doing very well,losing about ten pounds in the weeks before Thanksgiving.She believes that six small meals is a healthy way to eat.When she sits down to her grandmother's Thanksgiving dinner,she cannot help herself and has second helpings of just about everything,including the pumpkin pie.She realizes that no one forced her to eat as much as she did.She therefore is likely to experience:

• A)dissonance
• B)contra-attitudinal thinking
• C)positive consequences
• D)a self-fulfilling prophecy

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