L33 Psych 315 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Fritz Heider, Cognitive Dissonance, Balance Theory
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Soviet union france we try to build an alliance with france: common enemy, balanced triad because +*-*- = + If there was a country that was allies with both us and soviet. People are motivated to have consistency between attitude and behavior: 2. When people notice an inconsistency between attitudes and behavior, it produces an unpleasant feeling called dissonance: 3. If sweating (uncomfortable, stressed) skins is wet is a better conductor of electricity. The faster the electric impulse from gsr machine travels back and forth on hand, the sweatier the hand is and thus the more uncomfortable/stressed that person is. Ingroup member, white face over, good word congruent people fast to respond to good key: finger going in right direction because of cue by positive , white face, congruent: black face, bad word people fast to respond to bad key. Incongruent: white face, bad word, slower reaction because get confused.