PSYCO241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill, High High
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The relationship between the two isn"t as strong as we think: do our attitudes affect our behavior, does our behavior affect our attitudes, the specificity of the attitude to the behavior. Measured women"s attitudes toward birth control and their behavior over a 2-year period. Women asked a whole bunch of questions about birth control with. 1st time asked: what is your attitude toward birth control? r = . 08. 2nd time asked: what is your attitude toward the birth control pill? r = . 32. 3rd time asked: what is your attitude toward using the birth control pill? r = . 52. 4th time asked: what is your attitude toward using the birth control pill in the next two years? r = . 57: salient attitudes will affect behavior. Conceived by duval and wickland: there are 2 different places where we can focus our attention, externally focused, internally focused. Things that help shift between the two different places: