PSYC 2120 Lecture 4: CHAP 5,6,11 - Social Motivation-lecture4.docx
20 Oct 2014
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Chapters 5, 6 & 11 attitudes/social motivation. Based on our thoughts, it effects our emotions and our emotions drive our behaviour. We will make judgments about people: can you trust them: cognition, affect/emotion/behaviour. Social motivation: how we judge others and interact with them based on those judgments (set of theories of how we judge people, and then based on those judgments helps to explain how we interact with them. An unfavourable or favourable evaluative judgment or response to someone or something expressed in one"s beliefs, feelings, or intended behaviours. Tri-compenential: holds that an attitude is a single entity. The more potent the attitude, the more likely the behaviour. When other social influences on behaviour are held constant. Festinger: cognitive dissonance theory (create some tension and try and push down behaviour through punishing approach, eventually attitude will reflect that) Cognitive dissonance (festinger) tension based (discrepancy that creates tension)
