PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cognitive Dissonance, Stereotype Threat, Amygdala

• School: University of San Diego
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 101
• Professor: Pearlberg Steven

Document Summary

Social psychology: attitudes, attribution, attraction, altruism, attitude: affect= emotional expression, way we tell physiologically. Behavior: way someone acts based on opinions or feelings about thing. Cognition = way you think about something/ know. Attitude: easily manipulated if didn"t have an attitude and can trace back to behavior. Emotional experience determined by feedback and behaviors. Want your thoughts, feelings and behaviors to be consistent. Uncomfortable state occurs when behavior and attitudes don"t match. Cognitive consistency: preference for holding congruent attitudes and beliefs. Discomfort caused by conflicts help recognize errors in belief systems. Persuasion: change in attitude in response to info provided by another person. Elaboration likelihood model: model predicts responses to persuasive messages by distinguishing between central and peripheral route to persuasion. Peripheral route- person responds to peripheral cues, emotional tone, attractiveness. Central: form opinions based on their experience, arguments, carefully consider. Peripheral route: person wasn"t paying attention intently so looks at the emotional message, attractiveness of candidate,