PSYO 2080 Midterm: Lectures until Midterm 1.docx
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01/14/2013 (cid:224) feelings about attitude obejects, these are correlated with your value system: religion, family values and so on strongly influence these types of attitudes, they can also be the result of conditioning: pablo and his dogs ringing a bell and gave them meat than rang a bell and no meat and the dog still drooled behavior can come from implicit processes we are unaware of. (cid:224) behaviourally based attitudes observations of our own behavior towards an attitude object (cid:224) when we behave in a particular way and we don"t have a good reason for it, we may try to justify and rationalize it. (cid:224) cognitively based attitudes weighing the plusses and negatives (cid:224) getting a cell phone: plusses and minuses, getting another flip phone objective negative attitudes towards particular groups are likely to have a cognitive basis (cid:224) belief the group threatens our value system in opposition to something that is important to me.