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