Do we have access to our own mental processes? High-‐level v. low ...

Subjects report their attitudes on an issue of social
or political importance, then are asked to write an
essay advocating the opposing view.
Some of them are given sufficient justification;
some are not.
Those given insufficient justification not only
change their reported attitudes, but they also
claim that their new attitude was the same as their
original one! They seem to have no awareness of
the change process. (This kind of thing occurs
even when the subjects are told that the
experimenters recorded the originally reported
attitude and have the record at hand.)