Someone Reminds You to Be Appropriately Grateful for the Gifts

question 73

Multiple Choice

Someone reminds you to be appropriately grateful for the gifts you receive. Were a dissonance theorist to remind you to be thankful, he or she would be giving you advice on how to __________.

• A) avoid cognitive dissonance
• B) avoid things that might be costly
• C) prevent consonance in your cognitions
• D) prevent insufficient justification

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Definitions:

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Monteverde Cloud Forest

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Preservation

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