Cognitive Dissonance Occurs When

question 281

Multiple Choice

Cognitive dissonance occurs when:

• A)conflicting implicit and explicit cognition occurs at the same time.
• B)two thoughts or perceptions are inconsistent, and an unpleasant psychological tension results
• C) we use internal, personal attributions, rather than external, situational attributions, to explain our own behavior.
• D)we overestimate the extent to which we could have predicted or foreseen the outcome of an event after it occurred.

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