PSYC 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Reinforcement
19 Jan 2016
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Social psychology- lecture 2- 12th january 2016- behaviours and. Attitudes so not always predict behaviour =sometimes attitudes are not correctly expressed (not in line: tripartite model of attitude, affective component: basic gut level attitude towards the feeling, cognitive component : perceptions or beliefs that you have/believe you. * in society today: females are believed to respond more towards affective components(emotional) (rationalizations) : male respond more towards cognitive components: central vs. Need to understand how we gain attitudes before learning how. Instrument attitude: instrumental in getting us what we want. 1: knowledge function stuff we otherwise do not understand. Negative reinforcement: helps us avoid something we do not want. We take on an attitude because it helps us explain things about. Aggression kid in the class; teacher takes on attitude that it"s a. Bad" kid because it helps explain something inexplicable. 9/11 inexplicable the terrorists killed themselves explanation is terrorism. ** this creates various attitudes fear of certain people/ religions,
