Advanced Placement (AP)

Devyn Steele

26 July, 00:42

With respect to the theory of cognitive dissonance, people can hold contradictory ideas in their minds. If you become aware of the dissonance between two ideas, you could pursue which of the following strategies to reduce the dissonance?

A. You can modify your views of the two contradictory ideas.

B. You can change the way you perceive the ideas by decreasing the importance of one of them.

C. You can tell yourself that the contradictory ideas are contradictory.

D. You can repress one of the cognitions into your unconscious mind and go about your day.