My portion is highlighted.  350-400 words. Team topic: Team C has requested personal choice of children vaccination as our topic...

My portion is highlighted.  350-400 words.

Team
topic: Team C has requested personal choice of children vaccination as
our topic assignment for week 3.

Learning Team

Cognitive Dissonance Paper: Identify a situation in which an
individual has consciously made a decision to engage in a behavior that
violated their cognitions--values, beliefs, attitudes, and morals (e.g.,
calling in sick to work when you are not actually sick, speeding, cheating on
taxes).

o Prepare
at minimum a 1,500 word paper (no maximum) in which analyze your identified
situation. In your analysis, be sure to address the following items:

? Describe
your identified situation.

? Analyze
the social, cultural, and spiritual influences on the individual’s behavior and
on his or her personal ethics. 

? Describe the reciprocal
relationship between behavior and attitudes.

? Explain
how the individual could have used cognitive dissonance theory to rationalize
his or her behavior. 

o Any
assignment that has more than 15% of the paper quoted (properly or improperly)
will be subject to a point deduction or discipline action in the case of
intentional plagiarism. You may run your
paper through the UoPX Plagiarism Detector to ensure compliance.

o Be sure
that you view the rubric for a more thorough discussion of paper requirements.

As this is an upper division psychology class, the proper
use of APA formatting will be required and will be a graded focus on all papers
within this course. Please be sure to submit the certificate of originality in
a SEPARATE file with every assignment. 
See course for more details. The
person that turns it in will submit it for the team.