Research on Cognitive Dissonance Teaches a Broad and Important Lesson

question 59

Multiple Choice

Research on cognitive dissonance teaches a broad and important lesson about how to influence someone else's attitudes.Specifically,if you want people to ________ the broader value or message behind what you got them to do,then you should use the ________ amount of incentive or coercion necessary to induce compliance.

• A) reject; smallest
• B) ignore; largest
• C) accept; smallest
• D) accept; largest

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Definitions:

Electronegativity

A measure of an atom's ability to attract and hold electrons within a chemical bond.

Cations

Positively charged atoms.

Electrons

Subatomic particles with a negative charge, orbiting the nucleus of an atom and involved in chemical bonding and electricity.

Positive Charge

A type of electric charge, typically carried by protons, that repels other positively charged particles and attracts negatively charged particles.