Your friend claims to be an animal lover but constantly wears fur and leather. How can you use the techniques designed by Aronson and his students (1992) to change your friend's behavior?

What will be an ideal response?

Answer: [Student can describe any technique but must include the basics of inducing hypocrisy and the resulting cognitive dissonance.]

Psychology

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Although the people in Jeff's family are extremely distraught over Jeff's sudden and unexplained paralysis, Jeff seems oddly unconcerned despite not being able to move his legs

In that doctors have not found a biological cause for Jeff's paralysis, his almost complete disregard for his condition might reflect a condition known as __________ a) river blindness. b) la belle indifference. c) tardive dyskinesia. d) nonspecific paralysis.

Psychology

From her studies of chimpanzees in the wild in Tanzania, Jane Goodall showed that humans are not the only tool- making animals

In discovering this information, Jane Goodall used which type of research method? a. field experiments b. experimental control c. correlational studies d. naturalistic observation

Psychology