3 - Attitudes, Emotions, and Behaviour Flashcards

1
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Describe attitude

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Positive/negative evals of ppl, objects, bhvrs

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2
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What is the tripartite model of attitudes?

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Structure of attitudes consisting of cognitive, affective, bhvrl components

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What is the cog component of the tripartite model

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how we think about the attitude object

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what is the behavioural component of the trip model

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behaving un/favourably towards an attitude object

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5
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what is attitude complexity

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number of dimensions an attitude object is evaluated against

more = more complex att

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attitude complexity is stronger when?

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it is both complex and consistent (all pos/neg evals)

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when may we attribute positive evals as a cause of negative ones and vice versa

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when we think about inconsistencies, so we integrate them

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8
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what is an attitude function

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why we have a specific attitude

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9
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how do attitudes act as schemas

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help us to make sense of info and make quick decisions as know what aspects of att obj to focus on

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10
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how do attitude functions help our impression management

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having +/-ive attitudes to the right object help us become valued, liked, and avoid disapproval/punishment

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11
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how do attitude functions act as a defensive

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defend against psychological threats like anxiety

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12
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describe the mere exposure effect

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more exposure to stimulus helps develop a more positive attitude automatically

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13
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when does the mere exposure effect work better?

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short repetitive exposures

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14
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why do we develop a positive evaluation of attitude objects in the mere exposure effect

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attribute learning to liking object instead of seeing, so can’t correct incorrect judgement

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15
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describe subliminal conditioning

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classical conditioning happening outside conscious awareness

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16
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when will conditioning not happen

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if placed under cognitive load

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17
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cognitive load means what for conditioning

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don’t have resources to pay attention so doesn’t happen

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18
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awareness of conditioning may mean what

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we can correct tendency or reasoning for liking an object

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19
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SLT is used to do what

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use info from observation to determine attitudes

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20
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when do we use SLT

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if we have no knowledge of experience of the att object

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21
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describe the compatibility principle

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attitude and behaviour measures must have same specificity to find true compatibility levels

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22
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what causes incompatibility

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if attitude and behaviour measures don’t have the same specificity

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23
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what are the 4 measures

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target
action
context
time

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24
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describe the theory of planned behaviour

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several factors determining intention to carry out a behaviour, and our intention determining whether we acc do it

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25
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what 3 things does TPB consist of

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attitudes towards the behaviour
subjective norm
perceived behavioural control

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26
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describe attitudes towards behaviour in TPB

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what the consequences of the behaviour are, determining if we form a un/favourable attitude

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27
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describe subjective norm

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normative expectations of others, resulting in perceived social pressure

28
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describe perceived behavioural control

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belief about whether present factors are inhibiting/facilitating ability to perform a behaviour, and how much control we think we have over performing it

29
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? and ? equal ?which leads to ? (TPB)

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own attitude + subj norm = bhvrl intention leading to the bhvr

30
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what 5 things in TPB compete against each other

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attitude beliefs
behavioural beliefs
subjective norm
perceived behavioural control
actual control
31
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what 2 things determine whether the behaviour is carried out or not

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intention and perceived behavioural control

32
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what does having no behavioural control usually mean

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can’t carry out the behaviour, meaning we don’t have the intention, so not carried out

33
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what does PBC moderate

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effects of attitude

subjective norm

34
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how are attitudes and carrying out a behaviour measured

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attitudes: attitude scales
behaviour: observations

35
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describe the attitude to behaviour process model

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behaviours are determined automatically by attitudes since we have little time to reflect and think

36
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what two things are activated when we encounter an attitude object

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attitude

social norms perception

37
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extent of attitude activation is determined by what

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strength between object and evaluation

38
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what happens when an attitude is activated

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perceptions and evaluations of the attitude object are shaped by the attitude

39
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a study found that intention was predicted by what

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half by PBC
40% by attitude
10% subj norm

40
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the study found what about behavioural variations

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30% determined by perceived behavioural control and don’t know about the 70%

41
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describe the intention-behaviour gap

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lack of correspondence between intending to carry out a behaviour and doing it

42
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describe the concept of planning

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having an implementation intention makes us more likely to carry out on the intention and bridge the I-B gap

43
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describe an implementation intention

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having a positive intention and a plan of the exact situation (time/place/how)

44
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we need what in the concept of planning?

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to anticipate the situation and our behavioural response and mental stimulation of the situation

45
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describe emotions

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psychological response and physical display of evoked feelings due to important objects, events, people

46
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emotions depend on what

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experience and history

47
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how are emotions different to moods

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emotions are clearly targeted, shorter in duration, more intense, aroused by specific obj/person/event

48
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list the 6 basic emotions

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happiness, sadness, anger, disgust, surprise, fear

49
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describe why the 6 basic emotions are basic

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universal, recognised and occur everywhere regardless of time and culture

50
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list emotions going beyond basic

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boredom, shame, pride, love, guilt, shadefraude

51
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list the 3 emotion families

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basic
self-conscious (shame/pride)
moral (contempt/empathy)

52
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Freud thought what about sadness

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it was the most common emotion

53
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study found out what about common emotions

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mean of happiness was 5 times greater than for sadness and was the highest mean out of all emotions

54
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describe embodied social cognition

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bodily states influence attitudes, social perception, and emotion

55
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describe embodiment of enotions

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imitating others’ facial expressions and perceived emotions of others automatically

56
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describe the facial feedback hypothesis

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brain using info of facial muscle contraction to determine how we feel

57
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how does mimicry of the FFH help us

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helps process emotional responses and when others’ emotions change

58
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what is the keychain in the James-Lange theory of emotions

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stimulus
perception and interpretation
autonomic arousal
emotion

59
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JL theory of emotions thought what about the ANS

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changes in it infer what emotion felt

60
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how was it found that the JL theory is incorrect

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separating internal organs from CNS didn’t result in changes
organ changes too slow
inducing visceral changes didn’t result in emotional changes

61
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what is the two factor model of emotions

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emotions are determined by both physiological arousal and cognitive assessment of the situation as physiological states are ambiguous

62
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study found what about attributing physiological state

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those not attributing physiological state to adrenaline injection experienced more anger when in emotion-provoking sit

63
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study about misattribution of arousal found what

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risky bridge participants were more aroused and more attributed it to female thinking she caused it than sturdy bridge

64
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describe the circumplex model of emotion

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mathematical representation of interrelation of emotions

65
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related emotions are where on the CME

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close together

less correlated far apart

66
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which feelings are systematically interrelated

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affective dimensions as every 30 degrees

67
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CME means if one emotion is reported then

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many more of a similar type will be reported