PSY220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Elaboration Likelihood Model, Peanut Butter, Cognitive Dissonance
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Attitudes: a psychological construct that represents your evaluations-your likes vs dislikes- of people objects and ideas. There are some things that you may feel neutral aboutso you have no negative and positive feelings. B- behavior- motor cortex lights up for action. C- cognition (thoughts)- thoughts attached to people or ideas. Losing is more painful that gaining is pleasurable. Frightening sound and bad smells are more physiologically arousing than delicious tastes. Brief contact with a cockroach destroys a delicious meal. I saw cockroaches on my peanut butter sandwich i no longer eat. My friend wants to be a social psychologist so i want to be a social. Attitudes of identical twins more similar than of fraternal twins. Some deep fears that we have may have been adaptive in our. In a study all women said no to casual and more than half the men agreed to casual sex.
