PSYC 2310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Vacuum Cleaner, Cognitive Dissonance, Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2310
• Professor: Saba Safdar

Document Summary

What we think what we are going to do does not always translate to the behaviour. We should be able to define conditions that you end up in specific behaviour. Evaluations of ourselves, of other people, and issues with some degree of favour and disfavour. Emotions or feelings stimulated by the object of an attitude, gut feeling, not rational, not governed by logic. E. g. dogs are cute so i don"t kill. Predisposition to act in a certain way, self-perception. Beliefs or ideas people have about the object of an attitude, weighing the pluses and minuses for making a logical decision. E. g. killing is morally wrong, so i don"t kill puppy. The relationship between these are not always consistent. E. g. we also eat ice cream even when we know that it is not good for us. An attitude is a single entity that has three components (affect, behavioural intention, cognition), all intercorrelated.