Psyc 360 1st Edition Lecture 13 Outline of Last Lecture I Consequences of Self Awareness II Cognitive Dissonance III Self serving Biases Outline of Current Lecture II Relationship Between Attitude and Behavior Current Lecture Class Poll on scale 1 5 rate how good or bad these things are and then do you actually do these things Whether they are good or bad Attitude Behavior Recycling 5 good Yes Fresh Produce 5 No Vote 5 Yes Drinking Driving 1 Attitude how much we like or dislike something Relationship between attitude and behaviors Attitudes predict behavior Attitudes drive behavior The Fundamental Assumption Rational to act upon attitudes In the 1 bribe study attitude did not drive behavior Instead behavior drove attitude Attitude so it was fun Behavior They said it was fun These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Rationalizing to change our minds as a result of our behavior Careful Thought Attitudes Behavior Sometimes our behavior governs attitude as well Video about a person s attractiveness Card trick choose one card with a certain face and end up with the other one Few people realize the switch was made Then asked why they chose the card they chose Compared the reasons to people who had switched cards and those they did not have switched The reasons were just as compelling for the people who had switched cards for those they did not have switched cards Meaning careful thought did not influence the people s attitudes If careful thought doesn t govern our attitudes then what does Sometime prior behavior Hind s Study dying wife and druggist discovered drug and charging extremely price and husband couldn t afford to buy medicine to save her life so he broke in and stole the medicine Was this the right thing to do o Moral Principles Avoid Harm Honor Authority Careful thought gives rise to moral decision making Moral discussion if train is coming and there are 5 people in the track and you are by the switch to change the tracks direction to only kill one person Do you do it Now you are on top of the bridge and you can push a man off to stop the train and keep from killing them Do you do it No our emotions influence our attitudes
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