Author Question: Recall that Aronson and his colleagues designed experiments to remind students of their own ... (Read 114 times)

Chelseaamend · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Recall that Aronson and his colleagues designed experiments to remind students of their own hypocrisy when it came to using condoms during sex.

Participants who made videotaped speeches in which they talked about the difficulties they had using condoms actually changed their attitudes and behaviors related to condom use. These experiments are actually variations on the phenomenon of the ________ paradigm.
a. justification of effort
b. post-decision dissonance
c. counterattitudinal advocacy
d. insufficient punishment

Question 2

According to the authors of your text, why do young people often fail to use condoms every time they have sex?

a. They would feel like hypocrites were they to use condoms.
b. Condoms are inconvenient, unromantic, and remind people of disease and death.
c. Because most sex is spontaneous, condoms are seldom available.
d. People do not think of birth control when they are sexually aroused.