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Conclusion for Aronson and Mills study (psychology of sex experiment)
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Conclusion for Aronson and Mills study (psychology of sex experiment)
If a voluntary experience which has cost a lot of effort turns out badly, dissonance is reduced by redefining the experience as interesting. This justifies the effort made.
When one of the dissonant elements is a behavior, the individual can change or eliminate the behavior. However, this mode of dissonance reduction frequently presents problems for people, as it is often difficult for people to change _______?
well-learned behavioral responses
Finally, many of the studies supporting the theory of cognitive dissonance have low ecological validity. For example, __________?
turning pegs (as in Festinger's experiment) is an artificial task that doesn't happen in everyday life.
Whatever its specific use, the concept of framing consistently offers a way to describe the power of a ______?
communicating text
Framing essentially involves what two things?
selection and salience.
What was the Cold War frame?
The cold war frame highlighted certain foreign events-say, civil wars-as problems, identified their source (communist rebels), offered moral judgments (atheistic aggression), and commended particular solutions (U.S. support for the other side).
Can a single sentence may perform more than one of these four framing functions?
Yes
Do all sentences preform one of the four framing functions?
No
a frame in any particular text may not necessarily include all ______?
Four framing functions.
The cold war example also suggests that frames have at least four locations in the communication process which are what?
the communicator, the text, the re- ceiver, and the culture.