Question 1
How can cognitive dissonance be reduced?
◦ By changing our attitude to match our behavior
◦ By changing our behavior to match our attitude
◦ By adding a third relevant cognition to justify the dissonant elements
◦ All the ways listed here are possible mechanisms for reducing dissonance.
Question 2
How did participants in Solomon Asch's line-judging experiment respond after they heard several other participants before them give an obviously wrong answer?
◦ One hundred percent of the participants gave the correct response.
◦ Fifty percent of the participants conformed to the wrong answer; there was no predictable pattern.
◦ Thirty-six percent of the time they too gave the objectively wrong but conforming answer.
◦ One hundred percent of the participants conformed to the obviously wrong response.
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