PSYC 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Cognitive Dissonance

• School: American River College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 300
• Professor: Fratello

Document Summary

Initial assumption = change attitudes, change behaviors. Attitudes often doesn"t predict behavior lapierre (1934) Induce people to behave consistent with a particular attitude. Attitude often follows change attitude to make it consistent with behavior. How we perceive and think about ourselves and each other; how we process and make meaning about our social encounters. Major field of research in social psychology. It doesn"t matter what you are really like, it"s what i think you are going to be like. If mean define situations as real, they are real in their consequences thomas. E. g. if someone mistakes a light to be a train, they will leap out of the way. Intuitive, reactive, emotional, associative, quick, effortless, slow-learning, automatic, primitive. Systematic, deliberate, cognitive, rational, slow, effortful, flexible, controlled, more modern. People capable of both types of thinking (sometimes at same time) System 1 is habitual and automatic while system 2 has to be initiated when there is time, resources, motivation.