According to Leon Festinger, Individuals Reduce Cognitive Dissonance in All

question 54

Multiple Choice

According to Leon Festinger, individuals reduce cognitive dissonance in all of the following ways EXCEPT by:

• A) developing new ways of explaining the inconsistency.
• B) changing future behavior.
• C) persisting with the current attitude and behavior.
• D) changing the underlying attitude.
• E) developing new ways of rationalizing the inconsistency.

Explain the significance of control strategies and their impact on cognitive processing.

Differentiate between automatic and controlled processes in information processing.

Understand how experience influences memory storage and retrieval.

Identify developmental changes in memory and information processing throughout the lifespan.