PSY400 wk 3 Cognitive Dissonance Paper

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.