Author Question: According to dissonance theorists, the practice of threatening mild punishment works because it ... (Read 174 times)

Themember4 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

According to dissonance theorists, the practice of threatening mild punishment works because it arouses ________ cognitive dissonance and therefore causes ________.

a. little; a change in attitude toward the forbidden act
b. no; little if any frustration
c. much; a change in attitude toward the forbidden act
d. much; avoidance of the punishment

Question 2

Recall that in experiments presented in your text (Leippe & Eisenstadt, 1994; 1998), when white participants experienced dissonance after writing essays in favor of doubling scholarship funds for minority students,

how did many of them relieve the dissonance?
a. by showing support of racist organizations
b. by showing lower prejudicial attitudes
c. by later telling the experimenter they didn't really believe in what they'd written
d. by seeking to befriend and date minorities