To Learn Whether Participants' Responses in Cognitive Dissonance Experiments Are

question 35

Multiple Choice

To learn whether participants' responses in cognitive dissonance experiments are the product of dispassionate reasoning, Daryl Bem conducted a number of interpersonal stimulations.Which of the following are features of such simulations?

• A) asking the participant to write a detailed description of one condition of a dissonance experiment and to predict how other participants will respond to that description
• B) asking the participant to read a detailed description of each of the conditions of a dissonance experiment and to indicate how they, themselves, would behave in each of the conditions
• C) asking the participant to read a detailed description of one condition of a dissonance experiment and to predict the attitude of the person depicted in the description
• D) asking the participant to write a detailed description of each of the conditions of a dissonance experiment and to then tell other study participants that this exercise was fun (even though it was really boring)

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