PSY320H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Likert Scale, Electrodermal Activity, Construct Validity
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Attitude: a summary evaluation or evaluative judgment of an attitude object that"s. Includes +"ve and ve aspects. based on cognitive, affective, and behavioural information. Strength stronger attitudes will influence our behaviours more, be more persistent, and more resistant. More likely to act consistently with attitude if it is stronger. Assumptive world: my own world of everything i know (consciously and unconsciously). They are critical to our feeling of wholeness and okness, so attitudes are a big part of how ok we fell in a situation. Attitudes help dictate how we relate to, and interpret, the social world. Attribution theory is the idea that arousal and cognition lead to our emotional experiences: adrenaline study: given and told ep, told what to expect. Given and told ep. , not told what to expect. The ones who were facing arousal and did not have an explanation for it reported the confederate as raising their mood.
