Which of the Following Is an Example of Cognitive Dissonance

question 203

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an example of cognitive dissonance?

• A) You are a lousy cook but you keep trying different recipes.
• B) You believe that reality TV is for morons but are addicted to American Idol and watch every episode.
• C) You dislike doing exercise but do it anyway to improve your health.
• D) You are polite and civil to people you dislike.

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Definitions:

Nuclear Freeze

A proposal to halt the production, testing, and deployment of nuclear weapons and their delivery systems.

Nuclear Weapons

Explosive devices designed to release energy in an explosive manner as a result of nuclear fission, fusion, or a combination of both.

Significance Level

A threshold in hypothesis testing that determines the probability at which the null hypothesis is rejected, commonly denoted as alpha.

Confidence Interval

An interval of values sourced from sample observations, which is expected to include the unknown value of a population characteristic.