Although Cognitive Dissonance Is a Very Powerful Way to Change

question 81

Multiple Choice

Although cognitive dissonance is a very powerful way to change someone's attitude, it is not implemented on mass scales.Why not?

• A) Most people are resistant to persuasion attempts.
• B) Very few people ever experience cognitive dissonance.
• C) People would become psychologically reactive to the persuasion attempt and do the opposite.
• D) It would be difficult to create a situation of low external justification on a mass scale.

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Definitions:

Constant-cost Industry

An industry where input prices do not change as industry output changes, resulting in a horizontal supply curve.

LRMC

Long-Run Marginal Cost, which is the additional cost of producing one more unit of output when all inputs, including capital, are variable.

LRAC

Long-Run Average Cost, a curve that shows the lowest possible average cost of production, allowing all factors of production to vary.

Long-run Elasticities

Measure of responsiveness of demand or supply to changes in price or income, considered over a period long enough for all adjustments to be made.