PSY 1102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Twin Study, Psy, Domestic Violence

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Gary Capstick

Document Summary

Social psychology: the scienti c study of how we think about, in uence and relate to one another: different people may act differently in a given situation, social psychologists focus on the situation. Attribution theory: the theory that we explain someone"s behaviour by crediting either the situation or the person"s disposition. Attitude: feelings, often in uenced by our beliefs, that predispose us to respond in a particular way to object, people, and events. Peripheral route persuasion: occurs when people are in uenced by incidental cues such as a speaker"s attractiveness. Actions affect attitudes: attitude follows behaviour as well. Foot-in-the-door phenomenon: the tendency for people to comply to large request after agreeing to smaller request(s): to get someone to agree to something big, start with something small, doing becomes believing, ex. Drive carefully sign people made a small and nicely done drive carefully sign and asked to put in on peoples lawns, most said yes.