Apart from Its Effect on the Study of Attitude Change,describe

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Apart from its effect on the study of attitude change,describe how the advent of Festinger's cognitive dissonance theory helped lead to the extinction of Skinner's radical behaviorism.Please include what kind of conditioning was central to Skinner's theory.In which model behaviorism or dissonance)is cognition viewed as a non-observable cause of behavior and why is that important)? Describe the differing predictions the two models would make for Festinger's experiment,referring in detail to aspects of the induced-compliance "$1/$20" paradigm.

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