Psychology 2070A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mass Psychogenic Illness, Normative Social Influence, Minority Influence

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2070A/B
• Professor: Graeme Haynes

Document Summary

An attitude based primarily on people"s emotions and feelings about the. Often linked to people"s values so that trying to changef them. Do not result from rational examination of the issues. Not governed by logic challenge those values. An attitude based primarily on a person"s beliefs about the properties of an: relevant facts, usually when attitudes are negative towards a group attitude object, belief that the group threatens our value system, homosexuals. Peoples observations of how they behave toward an attitude object. Attitudes we consciously endorse and can easily report. What we think of as our evaluations. Implicit & explicit correlated when asked to reflect on their feelings. Not correlated when asked to focus on cognitions. Best predictor of a person"s deliberate behaviour are the person"s attitudes toward specific behaviours, norm, perceived behavioural control. Theory of planned behaviour: pg 159, depends on the questions asked and if specific details are included.