0000000868 00000 n One group was being paid that amount to lie to the next subject about the boring experiment. They were instructed to put spools onto and off the try with only one hand for half an hour, and then turn 48 square pegs clockwise for the next half hour. The E then paid the S one dollar (twenty dollars), made out a hand-written receipt form, and asked the S to sign it. Rating scale -5 to +5, Did the experiment give the subject an opportunity to learn about their own abilities? The students were asked to perform a tedious task involving using one hand to turn small spools a quarter clockwise turn. Cries for help, shouting, and loud noises all help with which step in the decision process for helping? Which of the following was a finding in the classic study by Festinger and Carlsmith (1959)? x]#q/`aC+Khiflm( bc@'QV-a7:o1O7y?wo7.b7F^pZ{e>8_wonz&T=PJe~xw_}ba\ZXH%ll7qAa;;M?3)8T.Vw_G[H}FYc8svcf0w_~7],+g~aEo~}8/q'f. /Text The new edition of Cognitive Dissonance: Re-examining a Pivotal Theory in Psychology contains 12 chapters and three appendices. The loan officer's belief is an example of_____. How do we explain this? Don't see what you need? Leon Festinger's 1957 cognitive dissonance theory suggests that we act to reduce the disharmony, or dissonance, of our conflicting feelings. 90 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/ID[<20DCF6A9F66A934D9B18D4D3D2546E7A><7EBEFA77420BBC4EB7D76A22531484C2>]/Index[80 30]/Info 79 0 R/Length 66/Prev 129900/Root 81 0 R/Size 110/Type/XRef/W[1 2 1]>>stream Instead the opposite happened. (1984, August) Psychology Today, pp.40-45. John was late to class, and his friend Eddie assumes that John simply doesn't care about being on time. . 2. endobj A teacher decides against assigning group projects in which all groups members get the same grade. The formation of in-groups and out-groups, The effect that people's awareness of the stereotypes associated with their social group has on their behavior is, Strategies for overcoming prejudice include. This question was included because there was a chance that differences might emerge. Let us think of the sum of all the dissonances involving some particular cognition as "D" and the sum of all the consonances as "C." Then we might [p. 204] think of the total magnitude of dissonance as being a function of "D" divided by "D" plus "C.". This is an example of, The fact that Kitty Genovese did not receive help was most likely due to. 49 0 obj _______ love, based on many years of shared responsibilities and experiences, is what binds many marriages together. Eliot Aronson, himself a famous social psychologist and former student of Festinger, called this "the most important experiment in the history of social psychology" ("Social Researcher", 1984).
