PSYCH 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Twin, Genetic Predisposition, Operant Conditioning
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Someone"s behavior affects you, either positively or negatively, and if you have more positive outcomes towards an attitudinal topic, you"ll have a positive attitude. If you have more negative outcomes, you"ll have a negative attitude. Sometimes when we don"t know what we feel, we just compare ourselves to other people. We"re motivated by what others think about a subject; what other people feel about an attitude topic can provide the basis for what we feel. Even though their behavior is not directed at us, we can create attitudes towards something just by comparing ourselves to how others feel. Identical twins who are raised apart vs. fraternal twins reared apart: people with the same genetic code who are raised apart have greater overlap in their attitudes. Genetic predisposition to the attitudes we"ll hold later in life. Reared apart identical twins just have more overlap than. We tend to be favorable for subjects when we are rewarded for our attitude on them.
