The Amount of Dissonance Produced When a Person Engages in an Attitude-Discrepant

question 38

Multiple Choice

The amount of dissonance produced when a person engages in an attitude-discrepant act is greatest when the rewards are:

• A) much greater than would be needed to induce the act in question
• B) so small that the act fails to occur
• C) secondary reinforcers
• D) just sufficient to induce the act

---

Definitions:

Split-Brain

A condition, typically resulting from surgery to treat severe epilepsy, in which the connection between the two hemispheres of the brain is severed.

Corpus Callosum

The large band of neural fibers connecting the two brain hemispheres and carrying messages between them.

Left Visual Field

The left visual field is the part of the environment that is visible to the left eye when looking straight ahead, involving the processing of visual information mainly by the right hemisphere of the brain.

Right Visual Field

The right half of the visual world that is processed by the left hemisphere of the brain, involved in tasks such as reading and object recognition.