Psychology 2720A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Realistic Conflict Theory, Contact Hypothesis, Aversive Racism

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2720A/B
• Professor: Leslie Janes

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Induced compliance you can get people to experience cognitive dissonance by getting them to participate in a behaviour they don"t believe in festinger & carlsmith - boring tasks. People feel dissonance if we invest time, energy or money in a thing that is not worth while. People simply observe their own behaviour and infer their own attitudes from it. Carlsmith & someone - infer that they liked the study because they did the behaviour for . Impression management theory people want to make a good impression on others and don"t want to appear inconsistent to others. Hypocrisy paradigm arouses dissonance by having people publically promote a socially desirable behaviour and then made aware they have not always exhibited said behaviour. Cognitive response theory assumes that the impact of a message on attitudes depends on the thoughts evoked by message if message is more positive the individual will be more inclined to adopt position.