Mod 55 Flashcards
Attitude
Belief and feeling that predisposes one to respond in a particular way to objects, people, and events.
Over justification effect
Suddenly start being rewarded for something you already enjoyed doing, you may start to like it less.
Disposition
Enduring personality traits.
Fundamental Attribution Error
The tendency to overestimate the impact of a personal disposition and underestimate the impact of the situations in analyzing the behaviors of others.
Cognitive Dissonance
When our attitude and actions are opposed. Feeling tension.
Peripheral route of persuasion
When a person uses emotion and other persuasions to make a decision.
Spur of the moment
Central route of persuasion
When a person looks at the facts to make a decision.
Foot-in-the-door phenomenon
Tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request, to comply later with a larger request.
Attribution theory
FRITZ HEIDER
we have the tendency to give casual explanations for someone’s behavior, often by crediting either the situation of the person’s predisposition.