EAN: 9780804709118

A THEORY OF COGNITIVE DISSONANCE - LEON FESTING...

Leon Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance has been widely recognized for its important
and influential concepts in areas of motivation and social psychology. The theory of dissonance
is here applied to the problem of why partial reward  delay of reward   and effort expenditure
during training result in increased resistance to extinction. The author contends that a state
of impasse exists within learning theory largely because some of its major assumptions stand in
apparent opposition to cetain well-established experimental results. The book puts forward a
new theory that seems to reconcile these data and assumptions. This new theory can account for
data with which other theories have difficulty: it integrates empirical phenomena that have
been regarded as unrelated  and it is supported by the results of experiments designed
specifically to test its implications. These experiments are fully described in the text.

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