Cognitive Dissonance Is

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Multiple Choice

Cognitive dissonance is:

• A) the tendency of members of a group to avoid taking responsibility for their actions because they assume that others will do so.
• B) a state of tension that occurs when a person simultaneously holds two cognitions that are psychologically inconsistent.
• C) a belief that a statement is true just because the person has heard it repeated over and over again.
• D) the tendency for members of a close-knit group to think alike for the sake of harmony and to suppress disagreement.

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