Essays on Cognitive Dissonance

When I watched the movie Crash for the first time in 2005. I like it but I have never watch it with a different perspective view or what the movie wants to present to us. The film describe different stories in how they engaged each characters through their lives, and how they jump to conclusions based on race and discrimination that lead to conflicts. Watching for the second time the film, it make me realized how we as humans from different race , culture, education, language and ethnicity can ...

Known as one of the most intensively studied theories, Cognitive Dissonance theory was developed by American social psychologist Leon Festinger in 1957. He proposed individuals have a core belief system that affects attitude and actions. When conflict to this core arises, a person naturally desires to eliminate the conflict to alleviate the discomfort caused. Individuals want to avoid dealing with their dissonance conflict, and that can result in an alteration of attitude and behavior. ...

Cognitive dissonance alludes to the undesirable state of mental strain which individuals face while acting in a manner that contradicts with their own attitudes or beliefs. This occurs due to the irregularities in their thoughts or preceptions therefore, to lessen this discomfort there is an increased motivation to resolve the inconsistencies among attitudes and behaviours.Festinger and Carlsmith came up with a design that demonstrates this principle in action. Participants took part in a task ...

Another revision was offered by Cooper and Fazio. He stated that dissonance occurs due to an unwarranted consequence. This was referred to as “new look”, which meant that people feel bad about their actions if they result in an adverse consequence and thus a dissonance is created. Dissonance is only created if it results in an unwarranted consequence, not otherwise.Theory of cognitive dissonance helps in understanding the psychological process of accepting or resisting change. It also helps in ...

The process that involves our bodies gathering information from the environment and sending it to the brain is referred to as sensation. Senses possessed by human beings are responsible for the transmission of the massive amounts of information that is sent to the mind. There are volumes of information that is usually transmitted such as temperature, the smell of food, presence lights, people conversing and a distant copter flying. All this information cannot be availed in the brains were it ...

Extract of Ginkgo biloba leaf (GBE) has been generally used as a nutritional supplement for preventing memory loss and age-related dementias (Mutsunobu YOSHIOKA et al.,2006) it has been employed in dealing with cognitive deficits associated with normal and pathological brain conditions such as dementia, Alzheimer’s disease (Rosemarie Martin et al.,2011). GBE has also been reported to employed anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective effects (Liang T et al. 2018). The leaves of ginkgo biloba have ...

Cognitive dissonance is the unpleasant state of tension that takes places when there are two inconsistent thoughts or perceptions (Zimbardo, Johnson, & Hamilton, 2014). This would usually result in a conflict of attitudes and behaviour (Hockenbury & Hockenbury, 2012) and it is something we have all encountered at one point of time or another, especially in the realm of consumerism. It could have taken place after making that purchase of a new 70 inch widescreen TV, finally booking that trip to ...

Cognitive dissonance is the feeling of discomfort that comes from two conflicting beliefs (Aronson, Blanton, & Cooper, 1995). For example, someone who is aware of the negative environmental impact of their vehicle and deeply cares about the environment, but still chooses to drive a larger, fancier vehicle for style versus the environment. Cognitive dissonance plays a large role in regards to attitude and behavior change. No one wants to feel discomfort from their actions which leads to a ...

In the movie “Portrait of Abuse” the women in the movie live in social environments much different than our own. within the social contexts That we live abuse seems uncommon and within Northampton people seem more open to speaking up to that type of thing. The people interview so much older than us meaning they live in a different social demographic than us. These women live in a social context in which speaking up about things within relationships is against the norms and avoid doing it. ...

Though theory is a word that sounds complex and scares people away, when it comes to communication theory, it is simply a way to categorize the different aspects of communication that all of us experience – whether we realize it or not – on a daily basis. We often speak about communication in terms of specific events or ways we react to particular scenarios, and theory helps us by providing a more general understanding for the way we communicate in different ways. Theory can help us understand ...

Another revision was offered by Cooper and Fazio. He stated that dissonance occurs due to an unwarranted consequence. This was referred to as "new look", which meant that people feel bad about their actions if they result in an adverse consequence and thus a dissonance is created. Dissonance is only created if it results in an unwarranted consequence, not otherwise. Theory of cognitive dissonance helps in understanding the psychological process of accepting or resisting change. It also helps ...