For years, propaganda has been deployed by political leaders and systems in a variety of contexts. From a cognitive psychology perspective, explain why such efforts are often effective?

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Jaylin Schneider

18 April, 10:23

For years, propaganda has been deployed by political leaders and systems in a variety of contexts. From a cognitive psychology perspective, explain why such efforts are often effective?

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Kaelyn Allison · Answer 1

Reasons why propaganda deployed by political leaders and systems are often effective.

Explanation:

The use of propaganda by political leaders or groups are a determining element in gaining support and votes in a political system. Every political leader has certain agendas that they want to emphasize. The most effective way would be by misleading the people with propaganda.

From a cognitive psychology perspective, an individual or a group of individuals can be mentally stimulated or their thinking and perception can be diverted according to the information they are given to process.

Similarly, propaganda are diluted information which are used by political leaders to assimilate a misinformed understanding about certain things. For instance, the propaganda used by the Hitler and the Nazis that Caucasians were at a risk of extinction because of the increasing Jew population.

Propaganda is an effective tool which can be used to harness hate and fear among the citizens. It is the process of wiring individual's thinking and perception with diverted and diluted information.