PSYCH253 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4 and 12: Leon Festinger, Implicit-Association Test, Daniel Batson
17 Nov 2015
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Chapter 4, and 12, readings 5, 6, 7! !- attitudes and actions, our private beliefs and feelings determine our public behaviour! Attitude; a favourable or unfavourable reaction toward something or someone, one"s beliefs, People"s attitudes can predict actions, but in 1957, leon festinger concluded that changing feelings and intended behaviours! people"s attitudes hardly changes behaviours. Festinger believed the attitude/behaviour relation works the other way around! When social in uences on what we say are minimal, expressed attitudes are subject to. Abc"s, affect (feelings), behaviour tendency, and cognition (thoughts)! Allan wicker, 1969, people"s expressed attitudes hardly predicted their varying behaviours, Daniel batson described as moral hypocrisy, appearing moral without being so. Studies, presented people with an appealing task (earn raf e tickets for ), and a dull task with no rewards, participants had to assign themselves to one of the tasks and a supposed second participant to the other.
