Attitudes And Behaviours

Question 1

Describe the affective component

Answer 1

Feelings and emotions about the object

Question 2

Describe the behaviour component

Answer 2

The way the attitude influences how we act or behave

Question 3

Describe the cognitive component

Answer 3

Involves belief/knowledge about an attitude object

Question 4

Describe the concious level of awareness

Answer 4

Everything we are thinking feeling sensing remembering or are aware of at this present particular moment

Question 5

Describe the pre concious level of awareness

Answer 5

Information at the back of the mind but can be brought to the concious mind by simply thinking about it

Question 6

Describe the unconscious level of awareness

Answer 6

Unaware of unconscious thoughts but still have influence on our concious thoughts and feelings. Holds unacceptabe thoughts and feelings experienced in back of mind

Question 7

Describe ID

Answer 7

Needs we are born with and help us survive such as hunger thirst and sleep (pleasure principal)

Question 8

Describe ego

Answer 8

Part of ID which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world (decision making component)

Question 9

Describe super ego

Answer 9

Part of the personality that judges the individuals thoughts feelings and actions according to the morals and ideas of the society in which they live (moral principal)

Question 10

How does classical conditioning work

Answer 10

Can be used to create positive emotional reactions to an object by associating positive feelings with the target object

Question 11

How does operant conditioning work

Answer 11

When an attitude forms because it has been reinforced through reward or a pleasant experience . As a result the person may develop a positive attitude towards something

Question 12

How does social learning form an attitude

Answer 12

Theory provides insight into 2 similar processes of conditioning that result in an affective attitude formation. A younger sibling observes behaviour of an older sibling that results in rewards or punishments influencing their own behaviour

Question 13

Describe how repeated exposure forms an attitude

Answer 13

Developing a preference for things just because you are familiar with them

Question 14

Culture in attitude formation

Answer 14

Attitude in a person can depend on where when and how they were raised

Question 15

Describe a defence mechanism

Answer 15

Being an aggressive person by nature so decides to channel those impulses in a constructive way by taking up boxing as a sport (displacement)

Question 16

Describe another defence mechanism

Answer 16

Shy person spends hours in the gym every week (compensation)

Question 17

Describe defence mechanism

Answer 17

Baker who does not remember face of robber that held them up at gunpoint (repression)

Question 18

Why does Freud suggest we use defence mechanisms

Answer 18

To protect ourselves from feeling Sid anxiety or guilt which arise because wif feeling threatened or because our id or superego becomes too demanding

Question 19

Psycho sexual stages: fixation

Answer 19

A preoccupation with an event happening during a psychosexual stage

Question 20

Psycho sexual stages: oral (mouth)

Answer 20

An infant can develop an oral fixation of it found the experience of being fed, too frustrating or too pleasurable. Infant then derives pleasure from oral stimulation