PSYCH 350 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Normative Social Influence, Logical Reasoning, Cognitive Dissonance
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Their attitude is a general sense positive or negative; someone may have a negative attitude towards someone but will not act out, or will be nice to their face. One particular potent determinant of a person"s actions can weaken the prevailing norms of appropriate behavior. Behavior is an expression of someone"s attitude, if they act out towards someone, or punch someone, normally that is an indicator about how their attitude was. People tend to bring their attitudes in line with their behavior. Janet thinks a lot about each offer and ends up accepting jebco"s offer. Note that this means janet rejected simpco"s offer, despite having a very high opinion of the company. Imagine that we check back with janet a few months later and ask her about her opinion of simpco now. I think that before when she had to make her deacons she had a high opinion of both.
