A mother is trying to get her child to behave in the store and to stop running around, yelling, and grabbing things off the shelves. According to cognitive dissonance theory, if she wants to stop the child's behavior immediately for the time being, she should use a , but if she wants to more permanently change the behavior she should use a .a. bribe; punishmentb. small reward; large punishmentc. large punishment; small punishmentd. large punishment; large reward

Cognitive dissonance theory: According to this theory, there is a tendency of a person to see their cognition consistently. If there is occur inconsistency between the way of the behavior and thought of a person so the individual has to change something to eliminate that dissonance.

Two factors affect the dissonance:

The individual has to reduce the importance of the dissonant belief

The individual has to add some new belief so that these beliefs can be eliminated

The individual has to change the belief so that they can not possess for a long time.