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Chapter 4

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attitude   An attitude is a psychological tendency that’s expressed by evaluating an object with some degree of favor or disfavor  
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Affect   Feelings toward object  
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Cognition   Beliefs about attributes object  
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Behavior   Actions exhibited in relation to object  
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Knowledge   Organize and structure environment  
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Instrumental   Maximize rewards, minimize punishments  
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Ego-defensive   Deal with internal conflicts and defend against anxiety  
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Value-expressive   Express ideals/values important to self-concept  
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Functions of attitudes   Knowledge, Instrumental, Ego-defensive, and Value-expressive  
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Nominal   Names or categories  
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Ordinal   order or rank  
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Interval   Numeric arbitrary zero  
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Ratio   Numeric fixed zero  
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Measuring attitudes   Nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio  
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Thurstone scale 1   Post WWI work on interests and attitudes during 1920s- both industrial and psychological research interests  
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Thurstone scale 2   Developed procedure to generate about 20 statements that a respondent would agree or disagree with, sum the items based on their interval scale value (positive or negative items, scored appropriately)  
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Likert scale   numerical scale used to assess people’s attitudes; it includes a set of possible answers with labeled anchors on each extreme 1=strongly disagree 2=disagree 3=uncertain 4=agree 5=strongly agree  
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Semantic differential scale Osgood, Suci, & Tannenbaum   Bipolar adjective pairs  
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How Well Do Our Attitudes Predict Our Behavior?   People’s expressed attitudes do not always accurately predict their varying behaviors  
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Implicit   Implicit biases are pervasive People differ in implicit bias People are often unaware of their implicit biases  
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How Well Do Our Attitudes Predict Our Behavior? 2   When social influences on what we say are minimal When other influences on behavior are minimal  
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How Well Do Our Attitudes Predict Our Behavior? 3   When attitudes specific to the behavior are examined When attitudes are potent Self-awareness Forge strong attitudes through experience  
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Strong attitudes   Are more likely to remain unchanged as time passes Are better able to withstand persuasive attacks or appeals specifically directed at them  
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The two main reasons strong attitudes resist change are   Commitment and Embeddedness  
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Embeddedness   people have connected these attitudes to other features of their self-concept, values, and identity  
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Commitment   people are sure they are correct  
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The following factors influence the likelihood that a person’s attitude will be consistent with his behavior   Knowledge Personal relevance Attitude accessibility  
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Theory of planned behavior   Theory stating that the best predictor of behavior is one’s behavioral intention, which is influenced by: -One’s attitude toward specific behavior -Subjective norms regarding the behavior -One’s perceived control over the behavior  
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Three conditions that can affect the magnitude of the relationship between intentions and behavior 1   The degree to which the measure of intention and behavior correspond in their levels of specificity;  
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Three conditions that can affect the magnitude of the relationship between 2   The stability of intentions between time of measurement and performance of the behavior  
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Three conditions that can affect the magnitude of the relationship between 3   The degree to which carrying out the intention is under personal control of the actor.  
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Role   Set of norms that defines how people in a given social position ought to behave  
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Foot-in-the-Door Phenomenon   Tendency for people who have first agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request  
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Low-ball technique   Tactic for getting people to agree to something. People who agree to an initial request will often still comply when the requester ups the ante  
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Racial behaviors help shape our social consciousness   By doing, not saying racial attitudes were changed Legislating morality  
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Social Movements   Political and social movements may legislate behavior designed to lead to attitude change on a mass scale  
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Self-Presentation: Impression Management   Assumes that people, especially those who self-monitor their behavior hoping to create good impressions, will adapt their attitude reports to appear consistent with their actions  
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Self-Justification: Cognitive Dissonance   Tension that arises when one is simultaneously aware of two inconsistent cognitions To reduce this tension, we adjust our thinking  
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Insufficient justification   Reduction of dissonance by internally justifying one’s behavior when external justification is “insufficient”  
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Dissonance after decisions   Deciding-becomes-believing effect Can breed overconfidence  
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Self-Perception Theory   When we are unsure of our attitudes, we infer them much as would someone observing us, by looking at our behavior and the circumstances under which it occurs Expressions and attitude Overjustification and intrinsic motivations  
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selective exposure   Seek media and information that agrees with ones views to avoid dissonance.  
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facial feedback effect   The tendency of facial expressions to trigger corresponding feelings such as fear anger or happiness.  
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Overjustification effect   The result of bribing people to do what they already like doing, this can cause to think their actions are externally caused instead of internally.  
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self-affirmation theory   compensating in one area when another is threatened.  
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