Cecelia Is a Receptionist and Just Spent $347 on a New

question 86

Multiple Choice

Cecelia is a receptionist and just spent $347 on a new riding saddle for her boyfriend Claude, a weekend cowboy. When she got home with the saddle, she experienced a high level of anxiety about whether she had made the right purchase decision. What did Cecelia experience?

• A)selective dissatisfaction
• B)temporal distortion
• C)perceptual disharmony
• D)cognitive dissonance

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Mean

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Mean

The mean of a series of numbers, determined by dividing their total sum by the quantity of numbers in the series.

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