unit 4 Topic 3: Attitudes

Question 1

implicit attitude

Answer 1

an attitude that unconscouse and is not reflected by actions

Question 2

explicit attitude

Answer 2

a conscous attitude that is displayed through actions

Question 3

cognative dissonance

Answer 3

psycological distress caused when attitudes and actions do not align

Question 4

social identity theory

Answer 4

social categorisation: being categorised into groups
social identity: changing your identity to match the group
social comparison: comparing in-group to out-group

Question 5

attributions

Answer 5

ways to explain behaviour or event

Question 6

situational attributions

Answer 6

attributing behaviour/ event to the environment/ external factors

Question 7

dispositional attributions

Answer 7

attributing behaviour/ event to innate personal factors

Question 8

self-serving bias

Answer 8

bias made to increase self-esteem- form of attribution error

Question 9

fundamental attribution error

Answer 9

where innate (dispositional) factors are prefered over extrenious (situational) factors

Question 10

difference between prejudice and discrimination

Answer 10

prejudice = negative attitude towards members of a group while discrimination = actions to express prejudice

Question 11

scapegoating,

Answer 11

blaming a person/ group for negative event/ result

Question 12

direct experience,

Answer 12

direct experiences with people can cause prejudice

Question 13

personal and group prejudice

Answer 13

prejudice can be learnt by individual experience (personal) or when the in group/ majority have attitudes about the out group/ minority

Question 14

prejudiced personality

Answer 14

• people who are hostile and easily manipulated - can be prejudice

Question 15

tri component model of attitudes

Answer 15

affective: how we feel
behavioural: how we act
cognitive: how we think/ believe/ know