Cognitive Dissonance Arises When We Notice a Discrepancy Between Our

question 16

Multiple Choice

Cognitive dissonance arises when we notice a discrepancy between our attitudes and our behaviors.One way we can reduce the dissonance is by ________.

• A)trivializing the inconsistency by concluding that the attitude or the behavior is not important,so the inconsistency is also unimportant
• B)focusing more of our attention on the discrepancy to determine whether the attitude or the behavior is more important to us
• C)strengthening the attitude and the behavior and ignoring the discrepancy
• D)modifying either the attitude or the behavior to be more extremely inconsistent with each other
• E)describing the dissonant attitude and behavior to a significant other person to seek their support

Understand the impact of encoding strategies on memory retention and retrieval.

Recognize the difference between explicit and implicit memory.

Identify factors that influence memory retention, including the spacing effect and repetition priming.

Understand the concept of encoding specificity and its impact on memory retrieval.

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