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Announcements and Academic Talks Test #181
Announcements and Academic Talks
1. What is the main purpose of the talk?
A) To review the previous lecture
B) To introduce a new psychological concept
C) To change the course syllabus
D) To discuss a student's project
2. What are the students asked to do?
A) Conduct their own experiment
B) Watch a documentary on Festinger
C) Complete a reading assignment
D) Write a summary of the chapter
Good morning. Before we dive into today's chapter, I want to briefly introduce a key concept for our next unit: cognitive dissonance. This is the mental discomfort experienced when holding two or more contradictory beliefs or values. For example, a person who smokes knows it's unhealthy, creating a conflict. We'll be discussing Leon Festinger's original study on this next week. Please read chapter five by then to prepare for our in-depth analysis of his experiments and their implications for modern psychology.
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