medium · MCAT psych-soc
A person believes that smoking is harmful to health but continues to smoke a pack of cigarettes a day. To reduce the resulting psychological discomfort, the person tells themselves that 'smoking helps me manage my stress, which is more dangerous than the cigarettes.' This is an example of:
- Operant conditioning
- Cognitive dissonance reduction
- Informational social influence
- The elaboration likelihood model
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