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ATTITUDE; learned tendency to evaluate things in a certain way. This can…
ATTITUDE; learned tendency to evaluate things in a certain way. This can include (positive/negative) evaluations of people, issues, objects, or events
3 COMPONENT MODEL
Affective
expressions,feelings towards the subject
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Cognitive
beliefs, thoughts about the subject
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FUNCTIONS OF ATTITUDE
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Utilitarian
rapid evaluative judgments of targets, which facilitate approach or avoidance (positive/negative)
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Value expressive
help communicate who we are & may make us feel good because we have asserted our identity (self-concept)
Cognitive theories;Cognitive consistency: people try to maintain internal consistency and order among various cognitions
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MEASURING ATTITUDES
Self-report measures
Likert scale: principle of measuring attitudes by asking people to respond to a series of statements about a topic, in terms of the extent to which they agree with them
Adv: allow for degrees of opinion, and even no opinion at all
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Implicit association test: to detect the strength of a person's automatic association(hidden bias) between mental representations of objects (concepts) in memory
Physiological measures
pupil dilation, heart rate, lie detector
Overt behaviour measures
frequency of behaviour, non-verbal behaviour
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