PSYCH 2310 Lecture Notes - Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill, Perseveration, Hierarchical Organization
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Lapierre (1934) example: took chinese couple to restaurants and only one place denied service, called ahead to make reservations and stated he was with a chinese couple and 92% said no. What increases influence of attitudes on behavior: specificity of attitudes to behavior a. What is your attitude toward birth control? : correlation is . 08 b. What is your attitude toward the birth control pill: correlation is . 32, found wording and specification increases correlation, when supported by norms & under our control theory of planned behavior (ajzen & Important, salient/accessible self-awareness theory (duval & wicklund, 1972) Discrepancy reduction: self-awareness can have a civilizing kind of influence, correlation between self-awareness and cheating on tests, halloween study, mirror placed behind candy bowl sometimes and kids that had mirror stole less candy than those with mirror. Avoiding self-awareness: alcohol and self-awareness study, tested success and self-aware people and failure and non-self-aware people.
