PSY220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Operant Conditioning, Automaticity, Confirmation Bias
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Values: more global and abstract, fewer values than attitudes, have a number of core values. Beliefs: cognitions about the world, not facts, thoughts about how the world works (ourselves, society, etc, much more specific, have cognitive and emotional components, have a handful of beliefs (beliefs > attitudes > values) Looking to others to determine and confirm whether our view of social reality is correct. I"m not the only one that feels/thinks this way. Looking around and seeing if other share our attitudes and beliefs: especially if we identify with other people, tend to adopt attitudes of others if we do not share the same. If expressing your attitude violates role, less likely the behaviour will match attitude: time pressure, presence or absence of a mirror, characteristics of a person/personality (self-monitoring) high on self-monitoring . Self-awareness causes introspection always behave in a way that they deem as appropriate less-likely to match.
