When no weapons of mass destruction were found following the u. s. invasion of iraq, some americans revised their memories of the main rationale for going to war. the text author suggests that we can best explain why people changed their memories in terms of:

The correct word to fill the blank space is cognitive dissonance theory.

Explanation:

Cognitive dissonance theory is the tendency of individuals to seek consistency about their thoughts, ideas or opinions. In this case, some Americans decided to revise and research the main reasons for going to war after no weapons of mass destruction were founded in Iraq during the invasion.

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.