Attitudes

Question 1

What are components of Tripartite Model of Attitudes?

Answer 1

Affective, Behavioral, Cognitive
Attitude involves all 3, but not always consistent

Question 2

What is the Affective component? (TMA)

Answer 2

Emotional feeling toward a person, object, event

Question 3

What is behavioral component?

Answer 3

Attitude expressed in our actions

Question 4

What is cognitive component?

Answer 4

Beliefs on a person, object, event

Question 5

What is attitude?

Answer 5

General evaluation of a person, object or event
Can be positive or negative

Question 6

What is explicit attitude?

Answer 6

Conscious evaluation individuals are aware of and are expressible.

Question 7

Function of explicit attitudes

Answer 7

Social expression
Decision making
Guidance for behavior

Question 8

What is implicit attitude?

Answer 8

Unconscious evaluation and automatic evaluation
Measure through Implicit association test(IAT)

Question 9

Functions of implicit attitudes

Answer 9

Influence on perception
Implicit bias

Question 10

What is cognitive dissonance?

Answer 10

Discomfort from contradicting thoughts and attitudes to themselves

Question 11

What is avoidance? (CD)

Answer 11

Avoiding information that contradicts your beliefs and decrease the conflict to maintain current behaviors

Question 12

What is reduction? (CD)

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Changes to individual behaviors to be more consistent with beliefs to reduce conflict

Question 13

What is Rationalization? (CD)

Answer 13

Justification and reinterpretation to resolve conflict between beliefs and behaviors so contradictory is more reasonable

Question 14

What is magnitude? (CD)

Answer 14

Significance and importance of their beliefs or behaviors in conflict

Question 15

What are factors of magnitude?

Answer 15

Emotional impact
Degree of commitment
Perceived consequences
Personal value

Question 16

What is emotional impact? (Magnitude)

Answer 16

Emotional discomfort of conflict from emotional value in beliefs and behaviors

Question 17

What is degree of commitment? (Magnitude)

Answer 17

Increases in CD from higher investment of effort and resources to beliefs

Question 18

What is perceived consequences? (Magnitude)

Answer 18

Perceived consequences of conflict

Question 19

What is personal values? (Magnitude)

Answer 19

Contradicting beliefs with an individuals core values

Question 20

Strategies to reduce cognitive dissonance

Answer 20

Change behavior
Add to existing belief to justify behavior
Reduce importance of particular beliefs

Question 21

What is Prejudice?

Answer 21

Negative attitude toward another group before experience with the group

Question 22

What is direct discrimination?

Answer 22

Treat unfavorably cause of an attribute

Question 23

What is indirect discrimination?

Answer 23

A policy or procedure that disadvantages a group

Question 24

What is social identity theory?

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Our identity comes from our group membership

Question 25

What is Tajfel's SIT

Answer 25

We have social identity theory based on group membership along with personal identity It's important to boot self-esteem

Question 26

What is Social categorization?

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Categorizing people based on shared characteristics

Question 27

What is social identification?

Answer 27

Act in accordance to social norms of group

Question 28

What is social comparison?

Answer 28

Comparing our group favorably to other groups

Question 29

What is Ethnocentrism?

Answer 29

Judging ethnic, racial or national group as best

Question 30

What is out-group imogeneity effect?

Answer 30

Person looking at outgroup does not perceive individual differences

Question 31

How does belief in just world continue discrimination?

Answer 31

Believe victims are deserving of mistreatment Leads to lack of empathy and neglect of discrimination

Question 32

What is Realistic Conflict Theory?

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Multiple groups competing for same resources lead to conflict

Question 33

How does RCT cause discrimination?

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Group sees other as threat and negative stereotypes will form

Question 34

What is Contact hypothesis?

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Direct contact of groups under certain conditions to reduce prejudice and discrimination

Question 35

Conditions for contact hypothesis?

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- Equal status - Accompany by authority figure - Shared goals, Cooperation

Question 36

What is superordinate goals?

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Goals worth completing but require 2 more more social groups to achieve

Question 37

What is interdependence? (RP)

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Interacting people influence one another experience

Question 38

What is Equal status contact?

Answer 38

Interact of social groups on the same social level, differences are minimized

Question 39

Differences between prejudice and discrimination?

Answer 39

Prejudice is a negative attitude towards a group, discrimination is the behavioral component

Question 40

What is dispositional attribution?

Answer 40

Attributions of a persons actions based on their specific attitudes

Question 41

What is situation attributions?

Answer 41

Attributions of a persons actions based on external circumstances

Question 42

What are attributions?

Answer 42

How we assign causes for behavior for ourselves and others