PSYCH-225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Cognitive Dissonance, Self-Justification, Self-Perception Theory
7 Jul 2020
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The dissonance aroused when individuals lack sufficient external justification for having resisted a desired activity or object, usually resulting in individuals devaluing the forbidden activity or object. A long lasting form of attitude change that results from attempts at self- justification. If you"re forced into something there"s no conflict. How would this theory explain the result of cognitive dissonance studies. How does this differ from the cognitive dissonance explanation. Attitudes and attitude change: influencing thoughts and feelings. Conative component: thoughts and beliefs that people from about the attitude. Affective component: people"s emotional reactions towards the attitude object. Behavioral component: how people act toward the attitude object. Attitudes: evaluations of people, objects and ideas. Abc"s affect: emotion towards the thing , behavior: the action towards the thing , cognition: the thinking towards the thing. Self report: when you give your own analysis of things. Bogus pipeline: i can mindread, so why bother lying.
