Social Psych Chapter 4

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College Psychology
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2023
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Social Psych Chapter 4 - Favorable and unfavorable evaluative reactions toward something is a description of a person’s attitude - A person’s average behavior is a description of the principle of aggregation - Social Psychologists have identified that behavior determines our attitudes - The civil rights movement of the 1960s is an example of the change brought about by social movements - Cognitive dissonance theory assumes that to reduce discomfort, we justify our actions to ourselves - Moral action, especially when freely chosen rather than coerced, effects moral thinking - We infer our emotions by observing our bodies and our behaviors - For strategic reasons we express attitudes that make us appear consistent this is a description of self-presentation also known as impression management - When we feel tension, we need to adjust our attitudes to reduce the stress. The change is attitude is an example of dissonance theory