Based on MRI research on people who were experiencing and later resolved cognitive dissonance, what would you expect to happen to Mary,
who just reduced her dissonant feelings about visiting the tanning salon by telling herself that she isn't genetically predisposed to skin cancer, so it won't affect her?
a. She will next experience nervousness.
b. She will experience pleasant feelings.
c. She will be able think critically about other things.
d. She will be unable to encode new memories for up to ten minutes.
Answer: B
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A) voices can be eliminated through proper treatment and medication. B) auditory hallucinations are a diagnosable sign of schizophrenia. C) family support is the best way to deal with schizophrenia. D) all interpretations of voices are equally valid.
Which type of reliability is concerned with the temporal stability of an instrument?
a. split-half b. test-retest c. internal-consistency d. Spearman-Brown