Cognitive Dissonance The term cognitive dissonance explains 2 conflicting cognitions where behavior and belief are inconsistent between each other. When one’s behavior and belief contradict each other‚ we possess an uncomfortable feeling by which we call dissonance. Because we are not able to change our behavior‚ we unconsciously change our attitudes for our behaviors to be consistent with each other; making the uncomfortable feeling go away. This adjustment is termed insufficient justification
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Cognitive Dissonance Student Name PSY/400 Instructor Date Situation and Subsequent Behavior Richard is driving along a lonely road late at night after working late that day. He has a 4-year-old daughter who he has not spent much time with the entire week because of the long project that makes him work late. Similarly‚ he has not been having dinner with his family because he always gets home past dinner time. On this particular day‚ Richard leaves work a bit earlier in an attempt to get
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Forrest Gump: Jenny’s Personality Monday‚ August 22‚ 2011 PSY202 – Principles of Psychology In this character analysis paper the character of Jenny Curran from the award winning movie Forrest Gump will be the subject of discussion. This paper will present an analysis of the Jenny’s personality as it is applicable to Psychodynamic theory. The paper will present my rationale for the choice to use the Psychodynamic theory to describe Jenny Curran’s personality. In addition‚ this paper will
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Forrest Gump Film Review Gump‚ gifted with a low IQ‚ leads a very charmed life: a mother who loves him immensely and who sleeps with the school principal in order to make sure her child has the best education‚ a miraculous incident that eliminates the need for him to have braces for his legs‚ a childhood girlfriend who remains faithful to him till the end‚ surviving Vietnam with a medal‚ and‚ in general‚ a propensity for turning everything that happens to him into good. Forrest meets
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Cognitive Dissonance -This occurs when there is a difference between people’s stated attitudes and their behaviour. It specifically refers to our emotional discomfort resulting from this discrepancy. -This happens all the time! I might dislike someone but be polite to their faces- is that bad? -Sometimes the situational factors are more influential than our attitudes Evaluation of the tricomponent theory -A well known study into thse issues of whether our stated attitudes are consistent with
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In the movie Forrest Gump‚ at a young age him and his mother find out his test scores showed she scored lower than the average range a child needs to be in. Because of that‚ he was classified as developmentally delayed. A child can only be classified as developmentally delayed until age eight‚ as they grow up and become adults‚ their classification changes to developmental disability. Developmental delay is when a child fails to reach a certain milestone that is expected to happen at their age.
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Nathan Bedford Forrest is memorialized as one of the greatest cavalrymen of the American Civil War‚ and arguably one of the most controversial. He was born in Tennessee in 1812 to a broken family. Forrest worked as a cotton planter and slave trader‚ in which he largely profited. In the early years of the war he pledged his allegiance to the Confederate States‚ and enlisted as a Private in the army. Soon Forrest rose to Lieutenant General‚ despite having no prior military training. Forrest served as a
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Forrest was born with an IQ of 75. Because of this‚ he was isolated by all the boys and girls‚ many of which called him by names such as “dummy” or “stupid”. And yet at the movie’s end‚ he had turned into a loving son‚ husband and father‚ a friend‚ a soldier‚ a millionaire‚ an inspiration. How could he manage to do that? As the movie goes on‚ it is revealed that he was changed by each person he met in his life. The most influential person in Forrest’s life is Jenny. Meeting Jenny was the first
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Physical Cognitive Dissonance The story begins with two respectable men taking a stroll. One of them‚ a man named Enfield‚ relates to his relative‚ a prosecutor named Utterson‚ an encounter he had had some months ago with an evil looking man named Hyde. The man had trampled a little girl he ran into on the street. Enfield‚ along with several people on the street‚ took an immediate and overpowering dislike of Hyde’s sinister appearance. After the incident‚ Hyde enters a building and subsequently
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Forrest Gump is one of the greatest movies of all time. It brings together many of the most relevant themes and controversial subjects in modern society. Including some of the most difficult subjects such as; discrimination‚ racism‚ war‚ hardcore drug use‚ mental trauma‚ as well as a disease epidemic. The movie itself covers so many pivotal and defining moments in history and provides an intimate observation with a twist of humor and charm that is not often depicted in movies such as these. The
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