PSYC 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Implicit-Association Test, Albert Bandura, Spray Bottle
13 Apr 2016
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Beliefs are pieces of information about something; facts or opinions. You can have a belied about the weather outside it"s snowing outside . Attitude is a broad or global evaluation towards and issue or object (a target), either favorable or unfavorable. You can have a positive or favorable attitude (or like) the weather outside, i love snow . Affect - how we feel about the attitude object/person. Behaviour - how we act towards the attitude object. Cognition - what we think /believe about the attitude object. We make dislike or feel anxiety with snakes (affect) We may think or believe that they are dangerous complex some might be more dangerous than others and some just dangerous to smaller insects or animals (cognition) It is possible for someone to have two different evaluations about the same thing. I like jazz music but when jazz music plays they turn it off.
