PSY220H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Masturbation, Social Influence, Gordon Allport
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Attitudes: global evaluations toward some object or issue. Beliefs: pieces of information about something; facts or opinions. Info we expect to be true/fact, but they don"t always have to be. (childhood vaccinations causing autism) Every man has reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone but only his friends. He has other matters on his mind which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But there are other things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind. Fyodor makes 2 important points: there are some private attitudes which we may not share with others, we may not be aware of all of our own attitudes. Explicit attitudes: controlled & conscious evaluative responses. General attitudes facilitate quick, efficient decision making in specific situations.
