A. Skinner
B. Bandura
C. Festinger
D. None of these
Related Mcqs:
- Cognitive dissonance theory predicts than after people engage in counter attitudinal behavior, they will _________?
A. convince themselves they really didn’t perform the behavior
B. change their attitude to make it more consistent with the behavior
C. change their attitude to make it less consistent with their behavior
D. do nothing - Whose theory of ‘cognitive dissonance’ received acclaim in the ’60’s?
A. Festinger
B. Taylor
C. Jensen
D. Lorenz - Experiments based on cognitive dissonance theory have examined the relationship between behavioural compliance and attitude change. Which one of the following conclusions can be drawn from these experiments?
A. Behavioural compliance never leads to attitude change
B. The lesser the inducement for compliance, the more the attitude change
C. The greater the inducement for compliance the more the attitude change
D. Behavioural compliance always leads to attitude change - Whose theory of ‘cognitive dissonance’ received acclaim in the ’60’s?
A. Festinger
B. Taylor
C. Jensen
D. Lorenz - When a child modifies an existing cognitive schema to make it compatible with the cognitive aspects of an incoming stimulus, the process is called _____________?
A. assimilation
B. adaptation
C. conservation
D. accommodation - Which of the following is true of personal construct theory? 1: George Kelly developed personal construct theory to examine how individuals view the world. 2: Personal construct theory portrays people as victims of unconscious desires and impulses. 3: Personal construct theory does not try to locate the individual on the personality theorists, dimensions. 4: Kelly basically took the view that we are all artists.
A. 1 & 2
B. 3 & 4
C. 1 & 3
D. 2 & 4 - In Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, internalizing of action schemes is the major task of the______________ stage?
A. sensorimotor
B. preoperational
C. formal operational
D. concrete-operational - The stage of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development occurs during adolescence and refers to the ability to reason about abstract concepts and principles and evaluate issues in the broader social environment?
A. formal-operational
B. concrete-operational
C. sensorimotor
D. preoperational - The cognitive field theory was developed by _________________?
A. Harlow
B. Tolman
C. Hull
D. Premack - Always having been a good student, lrving is confident that he will do well in his psychology course. According to Bandura’s cognitive theory, lrving would be said to have:
A. strong feelings of self-efficacy
B. a sense of superiority
C. strong feelings of self-esteem
D. strong defense mechanisms
