Unit 5 Assignment (PSY102 Fundamentals of Psychology)

UNIT 3 ASSIGNMENT 2

Unit 3 Assignment – Paper Resources Assignment

CeTreiva Whitmore Lockett

Post University

PSY101 – Fundamentals of Psychology

Professor Stephen Eder

July 18, 2021

Paper Topics: Cognitive Dissonance and Attitude Changes

1st Source

Petty, R. E., & Briñol, P. (2015). Emotion and persuasion: Cognitive and meta-cognitive processes impact attitudes. Cognition and Emotion, 29(1), 1-26.

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Summary:

The article discusses how emotions may impact attitudes and persuasion in a variety of ways, including primary and secondary (meta-) cognition. They referred to the elaboration likelihood model of persuasion. The five essential processes occur at distinct stages of the elaboration process. When the breadth of one's thinking is limited, feelings affect attitudes through relatively simple mechanisms that lead them to change in a way that aligns with the valency of the emotion. Emotions may be used to support a proposal if they are connected to the merits of the advocacy, or they can be used to bias thinking if the emotion precedes the message. Some theories have gone further into these fundamental processes, but none have integrated them into a single framework.

Relationship to topic:

I plan to write on attitudes in my paper. I will talk about how attitudes influence persuasion. The article will describe some of the ways in which attitudes influence persuasion. The next topic I'll cover is the influence of attitudes and habits on persuasion.

2nd Source

Itzchakov, G., Uziel, L., & Wood, W. (2018). When attitudes and habits don’t correspond: Self-control depletion increases persuasion but not behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 75, 1-10.

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Summary

This article's review discusses the influence attitudes and habits have on persuasion. Just because someone's mindset has shifted does not imply that they have changed their conduct. Attitudes do not always entail the same psychological processes as altering behavior, because social psychology is still in its early stages of understanding the many mechanisms involved. They conducted a three-part study to communicate this insight by demonstrating that the moderators of attitude change are not always the moderators of behavior change. Despite the fact that they conducted three investigations, the results of all three were identical to what they advise.

Relationship to the topic:

I plan to write on attitudes in my article. I'll be looking into how attitudes affect persuasion. The study demonstrates some of the ways attitudes influence persuasion. Following that, I'll go through the impact attitudes and behaviors have on one another.

3rd Source

Redondo, I., & Puelles, M. (2017). The connection between environmental attitude–behavior gap and other individual inconsistencies: a call for strengthening self-control. International research in geographical and environmental education, 26(2), 107-120.

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Summary

The environmental attitude-behavior gap is observed in certain persons as a sign of a lack of self-control in maintaining consistency in many aspects of life. Prior empirical data was lacking; intuition implies that the environmental attitude behavior gap is nondependent; rather, it is more related to other individual discrepancies. The rational approach indicates that self-control is vital. In theory, conduct is believed to be translated into intentions, which are influenced by attitude.

Relationship to the topic:

In my paper, I'll discuss how attitudes and conduct impact one another. The article illustrates some of the ways in which attitude impacts behavior. Following that, I will discuss a research that looked at the variables that impact attitude and behavior.

4th Source

Postmus, J. L., McMahon, S., Warrener, C., & Macri, L. (2011). Factors that influence attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of students toward survivors of violence. Journal of Social Work Education, 47(2), 303-319.

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Summary

The study's aim was to identify out how education, training, and personal or professional experiences influence students' attitudes, beliefs, and behavior toward survivors. In that study, they observed that educational and training decreases students' blaming attitudes and beliefs, which encourage myths. It also improves their screening behavior, according to the findings. Professional experience was found to predict screening behavior when paired with indirect personal experience, while direct personal experience had no effect. The research results supplied researchers with critical information for schools to better teach students on how to assist survivors of certain crimes.

Relationship to the topic

In my paper, I'll discuss how attitudes and conduct impact one another. The study provided insight into some of the factors that determine attitude and conduct by examining how big of an impact experiences have on someone's life in relation to survivors of violent crimes.