Why Can Approach- Approach Conflicts Be Resolved Easier with Cognitive

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Multiple Choice

Why can approach- approach conflicts be resolved easier with cognitive dissonance than approach- avoidance conflicts?

• A) Approach- avoidance conflicts create inertia, thus past habits are employed without the need to resolve the cognitive inconsistencies.
• B) This statement is not true - approach- avoidance conflicts are much easier to resolve with dissonance than approach- approach conflicts.
• C) Approach- approach conflicts result when both alternatives are positive. The selection of one requires the rejection of another, which creates a need for a cognitive explanation of why one was not selected. The approach- avoidance conflict produces much less dissonance because one is positive and the other is clearly negative.
• D) Approach- avoidance conflicts result when the positive alternative simply overwhelms the negative, thus no cognitive dissonance exists under this condition.
• E) Approach- approach conflicts are very confusing to resolve intellectually, but approach- avoidance conflicts are typically simply resolved through behavioural aspects of reinforcement learning.

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