<P> To function in the reality of a modern society, human beings continually adjust the correspondence of their mental attitudes and personal actions; such continual adjustments, between cognition and action, result in one of three relationships with reality: </P> <Ol> <Li>' Consonant relationship': Two cognitions or actions consistent with each other (e.g. not wanting to become drunk when out to dinner, and ordering water rather than wine) </Li> <Li>' Irrelevant relationship': Two cognitions or actions unrelated to each other (e.g. not wanting to become drunk when out, and wearing a shirt) </Li> <Li>' Dissonant relationship': Two cognitions or actions inconsistent with each other (e.g. not wanting to become drunk when out, then drinking more wine) </Li> </Ol> <Li>' Consonant relationship': Two cognitions or actions consistent with each other (e.g. not wanting to become drunk when out to dinner, and ordering water rather than wine) </Li> <Li>' Irrelevant relationship': Two cognitions or actions unrelated to each other (e.g. not wanting to become drunk when out, and wearing a shirt) </Li>

An example of a consonant relationship between beliefs and behaviors is when