PSY 105 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Ethical Dilemma, Sympathetic Nervous System, Collectivism
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How do attitudes change: mere thought effect, thinking about something can induce more thoughts that fit with existing attitudes, can make it more important and significant, these thoughts make the attitude more extreme (polarized) Impression management theory p. 237: we do(cid:374)"t (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge our attitudes, (cid:271)ut report that (cid:449)e ha(cid:448)e for (cid:272)o(cid:374)siste(cid:374)(cid:272)y, socially desirable responses. Implicit attitudes: an attitude of which a person is unaware, can be problematic in this area of research, people may not always be aware of their true attitudes. Mere categorization effect p. 240: we favour those within our group compared to those outside our group. In group means that we favour those within our group compared to those out of our group: out group is the tendency to view people outside of our group as similar, ex. Italians = in-group: other people who are not italian = out-groups. Realistic conflict theory: competition arises between different groups because of conflict over scarce resources.
