PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Cognitive Dissonance, Gie
21 Oct 2016
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Mt tuesday oct 18 including lecture material today + textbook chapters 1-8 (inclusive) Bring pencil, eraser and mcgill id card. Check out the sample questions, these represent 1/3 of the questions. The idea is that if you can get ppl to act a certain way, that will influence their ideas/attitudes. O(cid:374)e (cid:449)ay (cid:449)e (cid:272)a(cid:374) study this is (cid:271)y usi(cid:374)g the (cid:862)i(cid:374)du(cid:272)ed (cid:272)o(cid:373)plia(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:863) p(cid:396)o(cid:272)edu(cid:396)e. Attitude usually changes only when the person judges there is insufficient justification for their behaviour. In the expt, ppl did a mundane task and at the end were asked to lie to the next participant and say that it was interesting. You are led to advocate an opinion different from your own. You come to shift your attitude in the direction of your behaviour. People are motivated to maintain internal consistency (among beliefs, ideas, values and behaviours)
