According to dissonance theorists, the practice of threatening mild punishment works because it arouses cognitive dissonance and therefore causes

the answers are (respectively):

much; a change in attitude toward the forbidden act

quick information:

cognitive dissonance was mentioned in the sentence. cognitive dissonance refers to a situation involving conflict attitudes, beliefs or behaviors. it can also be defined as the mental conflict that occurs when beliefs or assumptions are contradicted by new information

first, the romans stayed isolated because they had to defend their own territories from neighboring cities that were harassing them, like the etruscans. second, once the romans managed to defeat their neighbors, and started to expand their territory, they started to build roads and bridges. finally, now that the romans have covered their territory with roads functioning as highways, they could mobilize their legions faster to assemble larger military units in a specific place

there are no options provided but you can choose among the following gender-neutral pronouns: zir, hir, eir, vis, tem, eir.

in the normal course of maintaining a pronoun-antecedent agreement, we could have used the words his or her but since we are also required to use gender-neutral language, we need to replace it with its equivalent gender-neutral pronoun.