Question

During a test, abe impulsively copied several answers from a nearby student's paper. he felt very uncomfortable about having done this until he conceived himself that copying answers is not wrong if classmates are careless enough to expose their test sheets. which theory best explains why abe adopted this new attitude

Answer 1

I believe the answer is: Cognitive dissonance

In psychology, cognitive dissonance refers to a situation when an individual is having inconsistent thought, behaviors, or principles.
Cognitive dissonance is much more common among people in teenage-young adults when their moral compass is still not fully developed yet.