U4T3 - Attitudes

Question 1

describe implicit and explicit attitudes

Question 2

predict how discrepancies between attitudes and behaviours can lead to
cognitive dissonance (Leon Festinger 1957)

Question 3

evaluate social identity theory (Henry Tajfel 1970), with reference to social
categorisation, social identification and social comparison

Question 4

describe attributions, and recognise how attributions are used to explain
behaviour, with reference to situational and dispositional attributions, and the fundamental attribution error (Lee Ross et al. 1977)

Question 5

contrast self-serving and confirmation biases

Question 6

describe stereotypes using the tri-component model of attitudes

Question 7

distinguish between prejudice and discrimination

Question 8

describe scapegoating, direct experience, personal and group prejudice and the prejudiced personality

Question 9

prejudice can be on the basis of social differences; describe prejudice
expressed as sexism and ageism