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Attitudes Flashcards

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What are components of Tripartite Model of Attitudes?

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

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What is the Affective component? (TMA)

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Emotional feeling toward a person, object, event

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What is behavioral component?

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Attitude expressed in our actions

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What is cognitive component?

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Beliefs on a person, object, event

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What is attitude?

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

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What is explicit attitude?

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Conscious evaluation individuals are aware of and are expressible.

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Function of explicit attitudes

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Social expression
Decision making
Guidance for behavior

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What is implicit attitude?

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

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Functions of implicit attitudes

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Influence on perception
Implicit bias

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What is cognitive dissonance?

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Discomfort from contradicting thoughts and attitudes to themselves

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What is avoidance? (CD)

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

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What is reduction? (CD)

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

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What is Rationalization? (CD)

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

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What is magnitude? (CD)

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Significance and importance of their beliefs or behaviors in conflict

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What are factors of magnitude?

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Emotional impact
Degree of commitment
Perceived consequences
Personal value

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What is emotional impact? (Magnitude)

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Emotional discomfort of conflict from emotional value in beliefs and behaviors

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What is degree of commitment? (Magnitude)

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

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What is perceived consequences? (Magnitude)

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Perceived consequences of conflict

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What is personal values? (Magnitude)

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Contradicting beliefs with an individuals core values

20
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Strategies to reduce cognitive dissonance

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

21
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What is Prejudice?

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Negative attitude toward another group before experience with the group

22
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What is direct discrimination?

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Treat unfavorably cause of an attribute

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What is indirect discrimination?

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A policy or procedure that disadvantages a group

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What is social identity theory?

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Our identity comes from our group membership

25
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What is Tajfel’s SIT

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

26
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What is Social categorization?

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Categorizing people based on shared characteristics

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What is social identification?

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Act in accordance to social norms of group

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What is social comparison?

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Comparing our group favorably to other groups

29
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What is Ethnocentrism?

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Judging ethnic, racial or national group as best

30
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What is out-group imogeneity effect?

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Person looking at outgroup does not perceive individual differences

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How does belief in just world continue discrimination?

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

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What is Realistic Conflict Theory?

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Multiple groups competing for same resources lead to conflict

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How does RCT cause discrimination?

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Group sees other as threat and negative stereotypes will form

34
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What is Contact hypothesis?

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

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Conditions for contact hypothesis?

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  • Equal status - Accompany by authority figure
  • Shared goals, Cooperation
36
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What is superordinate goals?

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

37
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What is interdependence? (RP)

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Interacting people influence one another experience

38
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What is Equal status contact?

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

39
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Differences between prejudice and discrimination?

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

40
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What is dispositional attribution?

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Attributions of a persons actions based on their specific attitudes

41
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What is situation attributions?

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Attributions of a persons actions based on external circumstances

42
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What are attributions?

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How we assign causes for behavior for ourselves and others

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