PSY426H1 Lecture Notes - Unnecessary Health Care
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There are two general tendencies that need for closure may instigate: seizing and freezing. These two tendencies produce a variety of effects on judgment: extent of information processing. Seizing will cause ppl to rely on early cues and freezing will prevent them from further exploration. Kruglanski and mayseless had ps perform a tachinostoscopic recognition task of identifying barely visible digits of the screen. There were 3 conditions: in the need for closure condition ps were told that forming unambiguous, clear-cut opinions is positively with intelligence. In the need to avoid closure condition ps were asked to identify the digits as accurately as possible and promised extra credit for correctly identifying the digits. In the neutral condition, no motivation was induced. Results: as predicted, the extent of informational search was lowest in the need for closure condition, intermediate in the neutral condition and the highest in the need to avoid closure condition: hypothesis generation.
