Leon Festinger claimed that our need to avoid dissonance

Question 5 options:

	counteracts groupthink.
	increases with age.
	is related to our Looking Glass Self.
	is as basic as our need for safety and survival.

Mary does not subscribe to the liberal leaning attitudes of MSNBC newscasts. Therefore, she relies on the Fox News channel to inform her about current events. Mary has a tendency to avoid information that would create cognitive dissonance. Mary's behavior is an example of which of Festinger's hypotheses?

Question 6 options:

	Minimal justification
	selective exposure
	Counterattitudinal advocacy
	Postdecision dissonance

The college students who gave pro-pot smoking impromptu speeches to junior high students during an experiment conducted at Purdue rid themselves of dissonance by

Question 10 options:

	changing their attitudesthat their pro-smoking speeches were not harmful to the middle school students who watch them.
	raised their self-esteems by viewing the experiment as a means to an end.
	focusing on the greater good of the experiment's premise.
	enabling the junior high students to think for themselves.

According to our text, what function in group communication moves the group towards a goal?

Question 13 options:

	pragmatic communication
	relational communication
	task-focused communication
	intrapersonal communication

According to Hirokawa and Gouran, which of the four functions of effective decision-making requires the group to take a realistic look at current conditions, and determine the nature, extent, and probable cause(s) of the problem?

Question 16 options:

	identification of alternatives
	goal setting
	evaluation of positive and negative characteristics
	problem analysis

Which of the following is offered as a criticism of the functional theory?

Question 17 options:

	It is overly concerned with power and losses focus on decision-making.
	It incorporates a group's history too prominently, and not what it does in the here-and-now.
	The theory only address questions of fact and of value, not policy.
	Overstates a rational approach, separating it from other aspects of group life.