Apart from Its Effect on the Study of Attitude Change,describe

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Apart from its effect on the study of attitude change,describe how the advent of Festinger's cognitive dissonance theory impacted our understanding of conditioning.What type of conditioning is most impacted by cognitive dissonance findings? In which model (conditioning or dissonance)is cognition viewed as a non-observable cause of behavior (and why is that important)? Describe the differing predictions the two approaches would make for Festinger's experiment,referring in detail to aspects of the induced-compliance "$1/$20" paradigm.