PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13.3: American Psychological Association, Hazing, Processing Fluency

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

The american psychological association argues that climate chance is most of the most pressing tasks facing this planet and its inhabitants. Four most common approaches taken to attempt to change public"s behaviour: technological, legal, economic, and raising awareness. Technological approach aims to make alternative to problem as easy as possible. Legal approach focuses on policy change get the laws right and people will behave in a desired way. The economic approach focuses on financial incentives and penalties, generally through taxes and pricing make the right thing cheaper and wrong thing expensive. Raising awareness approach focuses on information get the information right, educate everybody and people will behave in a desired way. All of these approaches are easier said than done, obviously all politicians will try to implement higher taxes to encourage sustainable transportation, but you cannot always pass laws and increase taxes. To change behaviour, you have to change beliefs.