Andrea just purchased a trip to Jamaica as a present to her husband for their tenth wedding anniversary. Andrea is anxious about the trip, afraid Bill will not like her choice of location and worried she spent too much money. Andrea is experiencing

Getting contradictory ideas, opinions or behaviors, in particular as they relate to behavioral choices and change in attitude is referred to cognitive dissonance.

Cognitive dissonance is when one has several or even more conflicting views, beliefs or principles or is engaged in an activity that runs counter to one of these three and is subjected to psychological distress just because of that.

Andrea is experiencing cognitive dissonance because she is not sure if her husband would agree on her plans.

ProfLincoln ProfLincoln · Answer 2 · 2020-03-31T05:04:21+02:00

Answer:

cognitive dissonance

Explanation:

cognitive dissonance refers to series of unpleasant feelings that may arise as a result of contradiction and conflict between an individual's belief or value and such individual's action or behaviour which may be from environmental stimuli or new information acquired. From this question, Andrea hopes for an awesome tenth year wedding anniversary celebration with her husband but on the other hand, she is anxious about the trip, her choice of location also brings conflicting thoughts as well as the huge amount spent. In short, she Hope's to be happy but has a conflicting stimuli. She is experiencing cognitive dissonance