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Attitudes Flashcards

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attitudes

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  • eval of person, object, idea
  • can be + or -
  • comprised of A-B-C
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attitude origins: affectively based attitude

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based primarily on people’s emotions and feelings about attitude object

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attitude origins: behaviourally based attitude

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based primarily on observations of how one behaves toward attitude object

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attitude origins: cognitively based attitude

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based primarily on person’s beliefs about properties of an attitude object

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explicit attitude

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  • we consciously endorse and easily report
  • likely rooted in recent experiences
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implicit attitude

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  • involuntary, uncontrollable, at times unconscious
  • tend to be rooted in long term experiences
  • the IAT will be back
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theory of planned B

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  • attitude does not inherently predict B
  • maintains that the best predictor of people’s deliberate B is their intention
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deliberate B

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  • people think intently about them
  • can be predicted quite well
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predictors of intention

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  • attitudes towards specific B
  • perception of social norms regarding that B
  • perceived behavioural control regarding the B
  • refer to schema in notes, section on attitudes
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changing attitudes

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  • persuasion vs compliance
  • persuasive communication
  • Yale attitde change approach
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persuasion vs compliance

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persuasion
- involves change of attitude
compliance
- change of B, even for a short period of time

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persuasive communication

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communication advocating a particular side of an issue

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Yale attitude change approach

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study of conditions under which people are most likely to change their attitudes in response to persuasive messages

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effective communication

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  1. source of communication
    - credibility
    - perceived attractiveness (halo effect)
  2. nature of communication (we don’t like it when we know someone is trying to change our opinion)
    - intentionality
    - two-sided perspective
    - recency/primacy effect
  3. nature of the audience
    - distractedness/receptiveness
    - cultural differences
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elaboration likelihood model

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  • central route
  • peripheral route
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central route

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  • when people are motivated and have the ability to pay attention to the arguments in the communication
  • relevant to main goal
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peripheral route

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  • when people do not pay attention to the arguments but are instead swayed by characteristics
  • not relevant to main goal
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fear-arousing communication

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  • persuasive message that attempts to change attitudes by arousing their fears
  • moderate level of fear and recommendations to enable change is MOST effective way to use fear-arousing communication
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does advertising work?

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  • most think that advertising works on everybody but themselves
  • it works; when a product is advertised, sales increase
  • people react more favourably to ads that match their attitude type
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which ads work best?

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for cognitively based attitudes
- rational arguments and personal relevance = BEST
for effectively based attitudes
- emotion = BEST
importance of cognitively/affectively based varies

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cultural differences: individualistic cultures

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  • tend to favour advertising that stresses independence
  • “It’s easy when you have the right shoes”
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cultural differences: collectivist cultures

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  • tend to favour advertising that stresses interdependence
  • “The right shoes for your family”
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subliminal messages

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  • words/pictures used to persuade that are not consciously perceived
  • no evidence that these have effect on consumer’s B
  • research shows that advertisements = more powerful when we consciously perceive them
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attitude inoculation

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  • process of making people immune to attempts to change their attitudes
  • done by exposing them to small doses of the arguments against their position
  • allows people to develop their own counterarguments and thus strengthen their attitude
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product placement

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  • persuasion method
  • advertisers place their product into the script of a movie/shows
  • forewarning people that someone is about to try to change that attitude = good strategy against attitude change
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cognitive dissonance

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  • feelings of discomfort caused by realization that one’s B = inconsistent with one’s attitudes
  • holds 2 conflicting attitudes
  • most often occurs whenever we do something that makes us feel unintelligent/immoral
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getting rid of cognitive dissonance

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  • change the attitude
  • change the B
  • change the cognition
  • explain inconsistency
  • reduce importance of inconsistency
  • powerpoint, slide 35
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post-decision dissonance

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chooser’s remorse
- dissonance inevitably aroused after a person makes a decision
typically reduced by enhancing attractiveness of chosen alternative and devaluating the rejected alternatives
- the more permanent and less revocable the mission, greater the need to reduce dissonance

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behaving immorally

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  • when presented w/ moral dilemma, decision made will evoke dissonance and result in more extreme attitudes
  • i.e. cheating on a test
    1. cheaters grow more lenient towards cheating
    2. resisters develop stricter attitudes toward cheating
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justification of effort

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  • tendency for individuals to increase liking for something they have worked hard to attain
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counter attitudinal B

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  • sometimes we have an opinion countering to our private belief/attitude
  • look toward external sources to justify
  • if none found, we must look inward
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external justification

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  • person’s reason/explanation for dissonant B that resides outside the individual
  • i.e. to receive a large reward
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internal justification

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  • reduction of dissonance by changing something about onself
  • i.e. one’s attitudes or B
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Festinger and Carlsmith

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  • participants were paid 20$ or 1$ to lie to a fellow student
  • those who had insufficient external justification changed their attitudes to make themselves feel like they were telling the truth
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using counter-attitudinal advocacy to tackle social problems

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  • in several studies, participants generated counter-attitudinal arguments for a social causes they did originally not support
  • hypocrisy created resulted in changes in positive behavioural changes
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insufficient punishment

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  • dissonance aroused when individuals lack sufficient external justification for having resisted a desired activity/object
  • usually resulting in the individuals devaluing the forbidden activity or object
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the aftermath of bad deeds

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  • when we hurt someone, we come to dislike or hate that person as a way to justify our cruelty
  • i.e. dehumanizing victims of war
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hypocrisy paradigm

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  • sometimes people are not aware that they are behaving in a manner that is inconsistent with their stated minds
  • bring this attention through hypocrisy induction
  • dissonance aroused and this can lead to attitude and B change
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self-affirmation theory

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  • find relief through self-affirmation when typical strategies to reduce dissonance
  • affirming their competence on some dimension unrelated to the threat
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culture and self-affirmation

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  • type of culture (ind vs col) can impact
  • independent self-affirmation less need for dissonance reduction among Euro-Canadians
  • interdependent self-affirmation have decreased the need for dissonance reduction among East Asians

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