PSY 105 Study Guide - Final Guide: Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor, Social Anxiety Disorder, Mesocortical Pathway
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Gordon allport (1954) embraced social psychology understand, explain and predict how thoughts, feelings, and behavior influence and are influences by the actual and imagined, or implied presence of others. Social cognition how people perceive and interpret themselves and others in their social world. It is not so much the kind of person a man is, as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that. Explains the stable and enduring evaluations of things and people. Attitudes have three components according to abc model: Affective component how we feel towards an object. Behavioral component how we behave toward an object. Cognitive component what we believe about the object. Attitudes develop through socialization process by which children acquire beliefs and behaviors considered desirable/appropriate by the family to which they belong. Attitudes change and it is proved by festinger and carlsmith (1959) through manipulation. Participants found a boring task to be enjoyable once they are told that it is enjoyable.
