In an Experiment, Two Groups Were Asked to Drink the Same

question 97

Multiple Choice

In an experiment, two groups were asked to drink the same brand of fruit juice. One group was simply asked politely to try the drink. The second group was tricked into drinking the juice. Suppose that, on average, the second group liked the juice more than the first. How could the theory of cognitive dissonance be used to explain these results?

• A) It may violate a person's sense of consistency to be tricked; therefore members of the second group concluded that they really drank the juice because it tasted good.
• B) It may violate a person's self-esteem to be tricked; consequently the juice was liked more because the respondents had paid a higher psychological price.
• C) People who were asked politely would have more anticipation and more expectations of the juice than the other group. These pre-tasting conditions were harder to meet than when people were simply tricked into tasting the juice.
• D) It created a larger sense of cognitive dissonance in the first group because they agree to taste the juice simply by being asked. They expressed their subconscious displeasure by rating the drink more negatively than the second group.

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Definitions:

DNA Polymerase

A catalyst that constructs DNA strands from deoxyribonucleotides, which are the foundational elements of DNA.

Translocation

The movement of organic materials (dissolved food) in the phloem of a plant. Chromosome abnormality in which part of one chromosome has become attached to another. Part of the elongation cycle of protein synthesis in which a transfer RNA attached to the growing polypeptide chain is transferred from the A site to the P site.

Ribosome

Cellular organelles that synthesize proteins by translating mRNA sequences.

tRNA

Transfer RNA, a type of RNA molecule that helps decode a messenger RNA (mRNA) sequence into a protein during the process of translation.