PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Cognitive Dissonance, Reductionism, Neural Coding
28 Nov 2016
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In today"s lecture, we explore how the conclusions of macintropsych inform our understanding of human social interactions. Some of the things you know to be true about psychology are wrong: It is important for us to think critical of psychological information that is out there; there are people out there who are giving out false information on purpose. Social media provides an easy outlet for passing on misinformation. Psychology is not just common sense with academic terminology. Psychology is not common sense; not everything is intuitive. This leads to a feeling of cognitive dissonance. Actions and beliefs are not lined up. Person can either refuse the favour, but to relieve their dissonance might change their original belief: i guess they"re not that bad . Application of cognitive dissonance to try to improve your social status. Your perception of the world is guided by prior experience, biases and heuristics; We only have access to a limited subset of reality:
