Think back to Festinger and Carlsmith's (1959) classic study on cognitive dissonance. As compared to participants who were paid $20 for doing a boring task, those participants who were paid $1 for doing the same task:
a) liked the task more.
b) liked the task less.
c) liked the task equally as much.
d) were less likely to tell their friends to do the task.
ANS: B
Psychology
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a. storage b. retrieval c. encoding d. decoding e. processing
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The information-processing perspective
A) examines separate aspects of thinking. B) fails to consider biological influences on cognitive development. C) applies only to children in cultures having formal schooling. D) focuses on overall cognitive change.
Psychology