PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Cognitive Dissonance, Social Cognition, Divisor

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 105
• Professor: sarah radtke

Document Summary

Seeks to understand, explain, and predict how people"s thought, feelings and behaviours are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. First impression and ways we think about the causes of behaviours. Once formed, our expectations affect how we perceive behaviour. Social cognition - how people perceive, interpret and categorize their own and others" social behaviour. Attitude - relatively stable and enduring evaluations of things and people. Affective -- how we feel toward the object. Behavioural -- how we behave toward the object. Cognitive -- what we believe about the object. Beliefs develop early through socialization by parents, peers, media, and teachers. E. g. you recycle, so you change your attitude about global warming to justify why you recycle. Cognitive dissonance -- emotional discomfort as a result of holding contradictory beliefs or belief that contradicts the behaviour. We change our beliefs to justify(or match) our action.