SOCPSY 1Z03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Forces, Theory Of Planned Behavior, Ingroups And Outgroups

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 1Z03
• Professor: Paul Galvin

Document Summary

Attitudes are evaluations of people, places, things, behaviours and ideas etc. Interested in how social forces affect individuals" attitudes how these attitudes in turn relate to behaviour. Predisposition to respond to a particular object in a favourable or unfavourable way. Created based on meanings, construction and or/definitional processes, rooted in. Constructed nature of attitudes interaction with other social actors. Out attitudes can be both negative or positive. Opinion: how we can think- opinion polls such as how we think about our social issues. Refers to knowledge structures associated with the attitude object. Often, we cannot prove a particular belief true or false. Can range from positive to negative, and weak to strong in intensity. People holding specific attitudes are inclined to behave in certain ways that are consistent with that attitude. Attitudes are developed through socialization processes including: Way to evaluate and categorize people, places and things allowing us to make judgements and inferences.