PSYCH 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Realistic Conflict Theory, Borderline Personality Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder
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Attitudes: how one feels about a particular object, event, idea. Explicit vs implicit attitudes: explicit attitudes are ones you overtly express; implicit attitudes are ones that effect how you think subconsciously. Cognitive dissonance: an uncomfortable mental state due to contradiction between 2 attitudes or behavior and an attitude. You can reduce dissonance by changing behavior or changing attitude, rationalize away the conflict, trivialize discrepancies. Festinger experiment: participants performed an extremely boring task and then reported to other participants how enjoyable it was. Participants who were paid more () to lie about their experience reported enjoying it less than those paid less () to lie. Focus on the positive aspects of chosen option and the negative aspects of the non chosen option. Justifying effort: when people put themselves through pain, embarrassment, or discomfort to join a group, they experience a great deal of dissonance. To resolve it, they inflate the importance of the group and their commitment to it.
