SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: When Prophecy Fails, Migraine, Leon Festinger
19 Apr 2016
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An attitude is a predisposition to respond to a particular object in a favourable or unfavourable way components: Cognitive dissonance: psychological tension between thoughts and behaviours. Leon festinger - dissonance theory deals with consistency between two or more elements (behaviours and dissonant cognitions) sources of cognitive dissonance: post-decisional dissonance. When our behaviours contradict existing attitudes ex. i chose mac even though i wanted to go away and live away from home prediction: we want peace so we will change/adjust our existing attitudes to resolve dissonance. Add a third belief that resolves con ict ex. You consider yourself an a student but fail the 1z03 exam consonant with that decision and other cognitions that are dissonant with it. Change/ flip your belief that you are an. Add: i had a migraine that day. Book about religion called seekers that believed in an imminent apocalypse and its coping mechanisms after the event did not occur.
