Comm. Theory Final

The specific process of avoiding information that's discrepant from that which one already believes is called...

Cognitive dissonance will be great if the discrepant act is...

According to Festinger, the $1/$20 experiment illustrates...

Dieter Frey found that selective exposure does not operate if...

Elliot Aronson extended Festinger's theory by...

The focus of cognitive dissonance is...

According to Festinger's minimal justification hypothesis, the best way to affact long-term attitudinal change is to...

For Joel Cooper, dissonance is generated by...

Having run his own $1/$20 experiment, Daryl Bem argues that...

Cognitive dissonance theory has been criticized for being too...

Post decision dissonance is likely to occure when an individual delays choosing between two equally attractive alternatives.

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Aronson holds that humans are not so much rational as rationalizing.

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The amount of dissonance a person experiences in inversley related to the effort invested in the behavior.
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One of the criticisms of cognitive dissonance theory is that it is too difficult to disprove.

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Cognitive dissonance theory suggets that when we make a major decision, we reduce potential dissonance by looking for justification before completing the action associated wiht the decision.

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