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In this task you will be given a text passage from a trivia quiz. You should choose the category this question belongs to from these categories: History, Science, Social Science, Fine Arts, Literature. You can only choose one category, so if in doubt, please choose the closest match.
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Self-Perception Theory is an alternative explanation of the data behind this this that focuses on observable behavior rather than mental processes, and counter-attitudinal advocacy is a brainwashing technique based on this. When a person undergoes this, extrinsic justification is preferred to intrinsic justification. A famous 1959 experiment dealing with this concept demonstrated that people paid a trivial amount of money rated mundane tasks more interesting than their higher-paid counterparts did. First proposed in 1957 by Leon Festinger after observations of a doomsday cult, this is, for ten points, what condition that is caused when a person has two or more conflicting ideas
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Social Science


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This work premiered as part of a charity concert series and was troubled by last-minute rearrangements and other production difficulties. After various demands from Jonathan Swift, the dean of St. Patricks Cathedral, the work was finally allowed to premiere on April 13, 1741 in Dublin. The work is divided into three parts, all dealing with different aspects of the life of what the composer considered the title entity. Famous arias from the work include I know that my Redeemer liveth, and Every Valley shall be exalted. The finale chorus of the work is borrowed from Revelation, while a good deal of the remaining libretto is taken from the Old Testament. FTP, name this oratorio by George Frederic Handel, most famous for the chorus Hallelujah.
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Fine Arts


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In one essay by this man, he described the difficulty of formulating what he termed "parallelistic hypotheses". In that same essay, this man wrote about the influence of Pillsbury and called for a "functionalist" psychology. In one experiment by this psychologist, rats accustomed to running a certain distance in a maze began to crash into the walls when the corridor was shortened. Another more controversial experiment by this man involved striking a steel bar whenever the test subject touched a white rat, thus creating a fear of things that looked or felt like white rats. For 10 points, name this psychologist who wrote Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It,conducted the Kerplunk experiment and the Little Albert experiment, and who coined the term "behaviorism".
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Social Science