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Answer:
Cognitive dissonance
Explanation:
In psychology, the term cognitive dissonance refers to the mental discomfort experienced by a person who holds contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values.
This discomfort is triggered by a situation in which a person's belief is contradicted by new evidence perceived by the person so the person will try to find a way to resolve the contradiction to reduce their discomfort.
In this example, Sonya thought sororities were filled with snobs, however during her first week in campus she was approached by a sorority member who invited her to a social function.
We can see that <u>Sonya's beliefs about sororities were contradicted by the new evidence she perceived when she attended the social function</u>, this made her feel cognitive dissonance and <u>her way to resolve the contradiction was to conclude that sororities do a lot of good things for the community.</u>
Thus, Sonya's change in attitude to match her behavior relates to cognitive dissonance.
The correct answer is availability heuristic.
Availability heuristic refers to the phenomenon wherein people take mental shortcuts when deciphering, making a decision, or evaluating certain information. In this instance, after Jerome saw a tv special on psychology in which most of the psychologists interviewed were middle-aged males, he likely associated psychologists and psychology professors as being male and middle-aged. Due to this, when Jerome took his first psychology class, he was surprised to find that his professor was a young female rather than an older, bearded male.
