Your friend Jamie shows you the gift she bought for her mother's birthday. It's an atrociously ugly fake marble statue of an angel, with the saccharine words My Mother's an Angel sloppily lettered on the bottom.
Jamie asks you what you think, and because her feelings are easily hurt, to spare her, you say, It's wonderful Maybe I'll get one for my mom In this case, you ________ experience dissonance because there is sufficient ________ justification for your action.
a. will; external
b. will; internal
c. will not; internal
d. will not; external
Question 2
You have worked extremely hard to attain a goal, but soon realize that the goal is not as exciting as you expected. You will probably
a. exaggerate the positive qualities of the goal in order to justify your effort.
b. exaggerate the negative qualities of the goal in order to obtain sympathy.
c. carefully analyze the reasons why you worked so hard to attain the goal.
d. deny that you ever believed that the goal was exciting.
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