Question

Question 242 pts

A lifelong heavy smoker who regularly faces warnings about smoking as well as media reports on research linking smoking with various health problems is likely to experience:

Group of answer choices

attribution error.

cognitive dissonance.

group thinking.

obedience to authority.

Answer 1

A lifelong heavy smoker who regularly faces warnings about smoking as well as media reports on research linking smoking with various health problems is likely to experience:

The correct answer is Cognitive Dissonance.

Justification - Cognitive Dissonance is a type of behavior, when the actual or existing behavior of a person does not matches his or her beliefs. The Cognitive Dissonance tends to build up stress and uncomfortableness and the person tries to ward off this feeling by making one self understand in a false manner or develop a tendency to avoid facts. In the question mentioned above, the person is experiencing cognitive dissonance, as he knows the after effects of heavy smoking but might be neglecting it beacuse he might be thinking that he is not a heavy smoker.