PSYC 1030H Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Gustave Le Bon, Gordon Allport, Confirmation Bias
13 Mar 2017
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Social psychology: person perception, attribution processes, attitudes, conformity and obedience, behaviour in groups. Reasoning: cognitive activity that transforms information in order to each specific conclusions. Decision making: process of choosing among various courses of action or alternatives. Rational decision making: making decisions in a cool, mathematical way. Rational considerations: utility or value to you of each alternative, probability of result occurring, ex. Deciding what kind of shoes you want to buy. Informal decision making: the more common (everyday) process. Role of mood states: current moods (especially strong moods ) can dramatically reduce our ability to reason effectively. Role of beliefs: reasoning is often influenced by beliefs associated with strong emotions (or moods) What happens when strong beliefs come face to face with logical arguments: logical arguments are often discounted. Powerful beliefs about capital punishment present alternate view arguments powerful beliefs about capital punishment are maintained.
