PSYCH253 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Suggestibility, Ingroups And Outgroups, Stationary Point

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH253
• Professor: Megan Mc Carthy

Document Summary

Our private beliefs and feelings determine our public behaviour. If we want to change behaviour, we must first change our hearts and minds. Attitude - a favourable or unfavourable evaluative reaction towards something or someone exhibited i(cid:374) o(cid:374)e"s (cid:271)eliefs, feeli(cid:374)gs, o(cid:396) i(cid:374)te(cid:374)ded (cid:271)eha(cid:448)io(cid:396) Peoples" attitudes ha(cid:396)dl(cid:455) p(cid:396)edicted their varying behaviors. Moral hypocrisy disjuncture between attitudes and actions; appearing moral w/o being so. External behavior is emphasized by social influences and played down by internal factors. When attitudes predict behavior: when social influence on what we say are minimal. Implicit association test (iat) a computer-driven assessment of implicit attitudes that uses reaction ti(cid:373)es to (cid:373)easu(cid:396)e people"s auto(cid:373)ati(cid:272) asso(cid:272)iatio(cid:374)s (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) attitude o(cid:271)je(cid:272)ts a(cid:374)d e(cid:448)aluate (cid:449)o(cid:396)ds, (cid:449)he(cid:396)e easier pairings (and faster responses) indicate stronger unconscious associations. Iat not reliable enough for use in assessing and comparing individuals. Explicit and implicit attitudes may together predict behavior better than either alone. Amygdala is active when we automatically evaluate social stimuli.