Question

Leon Festinger noted that ideas that one may have might be compatible with or incompatible with one another. When ideas are incompatible, a state of cognitive dissonance exists that motivates a person to change beliefs or behavior. His description made no reference to behavioristic ideas. Explain this.

Answer 1

His description made no reference to behavioristic ideas because his is inconsistent with behavioristic theories which anticipate that to get a much better attitude a boost is provided, and dissonance theory states fluctuation in a less incentive wise.

Step-by-step explanation:

Leon Festinger´s theory of Cognitive Dissonance (1957), proposed that people in general tend to find attitude, beliefs, opinions, values and behavior´s parity so to get psychological harmony to mentally perform in its social environment matching expectations and reality.

Cognitive dissonance happens when one gets a contradictory point of view from another then something should be changed to make tension, dissatisfaction, conflict or dissonance dissapear.

This is a social psychology idea that refers the ways people seek values´ alignment to find psychological comfort.