Attitude and cognitive dissonance

The scientific study of the effects of other people on the thoughts and behaviors of an individual

• Social Psychology

• Evolutionary Psychology

• Forensic Psychology

A feeling or belief about something

• attitude

• behavior

• cognition

When you receive a reward or punishment for having a certain attitude, you learned the attitude through:

• conditioning

• observational learning

• cognitive anchor

• cognitive evaluation

When you develop an attitude through watching others, you learned the attitude through:

• conditioning

• observational learning

• cognitive anchor

• cognitive evaluation

When you do research on a topic to come to a particular attitude, you learned the attitude through:

• conditioning

• observational learning

• cognitive anchor

• cognitive evaluation

When you come to a particular attitude because of a deeply held belief that you have, you learned the attitude through:

• conditioning

• observational learning

• cognitive anchor

• cognitive evaluation

If you hate iPhones, but you buy one, it is an example of:

• cognitive dissonance

• cognitive anchor

• cognitive evaluation