Attitude And Attitude Change Flashcards

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Attitude

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beliefs feelings and behavioural tendencies towards socially significant objects events or symbols

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Rosenberg and Hovland 3 components to attitude:

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Affective
Cognitive
Behavioural

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Affective:

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Expressions of feelings towards an object

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Cognitive:

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Expression of beliefs about an object

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Behavioural:

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Overt actions/verbal statements concerning behaviour

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Where do attitudes come from?

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Mere exposure effect- Zajonc
Classical and instrumental conditioning
Self perception theory

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Zajonc’s mere exposure effect:

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Repeated exposure of a stimulus- enhancement of preference for that stimulus

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Classical conditioning:

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Repeated association, neutral stimulus elicits reaction

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Instrumental conditioning:

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Behaviour followed by positive consequences reinforced and repeated

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Bem’s self perception theory:

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Gain knowledge of ourselves by making self attributions

Infer attitudes from our behaviour

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Attitude functions

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Knowledge
Utilitarian
Ego defensive
Value expressive

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How are attitudes revealed:

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Self report and experimental paradigms
Physiological measures
Overt behaviour

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Self report and experimental paradigms:

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Evaluation towards objects weighted by strength

Implicit association task

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Physiological measures:

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Skin resistance, heart rate, pupil dilation

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Overt behaviour:

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Frequency of behaviour
Trends and preferences over various objects
Non verbal behaviour

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Core of self concept:

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Hobbies, beliefs, politics, music

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Crano and Prislin:

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Because attitudes predict behaviour they are considered the crown jewel of social psychology

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Lapiere prejudice Study:

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Responses did not affect attitudes

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Specificity:

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This couple of all Chinese people in general

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Time:

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The closer the stronger correlation

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Attitude accessibility and strength:

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Information / direct experience

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Attitude - behaviour relationship. Wicker:

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Attitudes weekly correlated with behaviour across 45 studies
Average correlation .15

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Attitude behaviour relationship Gregson and Stacey

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Small positive correlation between attitudes and alcohol consumption

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Moderator variables-

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Situation, habit, direct experience

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Other variables:

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Strong indirect attitude behaviour relationships, eg through intentions

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Theory of planned behaviour:

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Attitudes towards the behaviour 
Subjective norm 
Perceived behavioural control 
Intention 
Behaviour
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Armitage and Connor:

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Reviewed 185 TPB studies until 1997
TPB accounted for 27% variance in behaviour
39% intentions

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Subjective norm:

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Generally weak predictor

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Festinger, cognitive dissonance:

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Person has two or more cognitions that are inconsistent

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Cognitive dissonance features:

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Counter attitudinal behaviour

Strive to reduce tension

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Counter attitudinal behaviour:

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Feel discomfort / dissonance

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Strive to reduce tension:

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Can reduce dissonance by hanging inconsistent cognitions

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Attitudes as balance schema:

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Heider
Balanced triad
Unbalanced triad

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Dual route models:

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Elaboration likelihood model- petty and cacioppo

Heuristic systematic model chaiken

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Central route:

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When message is followed closely considerable cognitive effort expended

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Peripheral route:

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When arguments not well attended to, peripheral cues, attraction rather than info

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Central:

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Argument quality

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Peripheral:

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Attractiveness, source credibility

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Heuristic systematic model- chaiken features:

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Systematic processing

Heuristic processing

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Systematic processing:

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Careful, deliberate scanning and processing of available info

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Heurisric processing:

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Use cognitive heuristics or short cuts