ANTA01H3 Lecture Notes - Walter Mischel, Leon Festinger, Lewis Terman
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Alfred adler (founder of birth order) believed there to be a universal drive in all humans: striving for perfection. Sir francis galton (charles darwin"s cousin) was determined to find out if intelligence runs in families. By applying darwin"s theory, he believed smart people should only mate with smart people, in order to produce smart offspring. He developed various ways of measuring intelligence, but wasn"t successful. Galton"s work influenced alfred binet to create the binet intelligence test. How does attitude affect behaviour? the way in which you perceive and react to a situation is influenced by a variety of things, including attitude. Your beliefs and feelings (attitude) guide your responses toward certain people and events. Your attitude is reflected in your behaviour ex: if your attitude is that fairness is important, it"ll impact your behaviour to not cut lines in the cafeteria. How are attitudes formed? a person"s environment influences attitude more than genetics.
