PSYC 2130 Lecture Notes - Cognitive Dissonance, Psychoticism, Ethology
2 Dec 2012
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We are never fully intergrated with out personalities, and we are always trying to get integrated. It is dynamic, and much more dynamic than at other times. If conflict is strong enough, there is some discrepancy amongst cognitive dissonance. We resolve cognitive dissonance by changing your attitude, to be harmonious to your behavior. Change your behavior is pretty much how you do it. Once you achieve statis, you feel integrated, and balance. When not in statis, we try to restasis ourselves. We spend lots of time trying to reestablish statis. Personality a psychological construct a complex abstraction encompassing a person"s genetic and experiential background and history that combined determined habitual and unique ways of responding. People behave in different situations from scenario a and b. Behaving in a may be considered inappropriate for b. Awareness of expectations are fulfilled through manners and words, which keeps us on track in the sense that we won"t deviate from a normal path.
