Psychology 2070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Product Placement, Doritos

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: Erin Heerey

Document Summary

Belief in a just-world will arise when you find out that something bad has happened to a good person. Because you believe you are a good person, so bad things should not happen to you. The more distracted you are in life by whatever you are doing, the more likely you are to do this, as your cognition will be distracted by other things, and you will not think carefully through things. If you see something good happen to a bad person, you are less likely to do this. Affective component is if you like your iphone or not. Cognitive component is why you like your iphone. Affectively-based attitudes are like the fear of spiders, nothing someone can logically say to you to make them not scared of spiders, even though they are incredibly small and harmless where we live.