PSYC 1030H Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Acculturation

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1030H
• Professor: Brenda Smith- Chant

Document Summary

Psychology chapter 8: behaviour in social and cultural context. A gradual process in which individuals escalate their commitment to a course of action to justify their investment of time, money, or effort. The theory that people are motivated to explain their own and other people"s behaviour by attributing causes of that behaviour to a situation or a disposition. The tendency, in explaining other people"s behaviour, to overestimating personality factors and underestimate the influence of the situation. Cognitive dissonance: a state of tension that occurs when a person simultaneously holds two cognitions that are. Acculturation: psychologically inconsistent or when a person"s belief is incongruent with his or her behaviour. The tendency of people to feel more positive toward a person, item, product, or other stimulus the more familiar they are with it. The tendency of people to believe that a statement is true or valid simply because it has been repeated many times.