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Cognitive Dissonance

What is Cognitive Dissonance?
Cognitive dissonance is an uneasy feeling caused by holding two incompatible ideas simultaneously. Cognitive Dissonance is one of the most influential and extensively consider theories in social psychology. Dissonance happen when a person perceives a logical inconsistency in their impression, when one idea implies the opposite of another.

Te theory of cognitive dissonance appreciation that contradicting cognitions serve as a driving force that compels the mind to develop or invent new thoughts or impression, or to modify existing beliefs, so as to reduce the amount of dissonance (conflict) between cognitions. Experiments have seek to measure this hypothetical drive.”

It hence happens when there is a need to allow for new ideas, and it may be necessity for it to formulate so that we become “open” to them. Neighbour (1992) makes the generation of appropriate dissonance into a major characteristic of tutorial (and other) teaching: he shows how to drive this kind of mental wedge between learners’ current beliefs and “reality”.

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