PSYC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Victim Blaming, Collectivism, Fundamental Attribution Error
3 Apr 2016
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* an evaluation (positive or negative) of a person, object or idea. Based primarily on people"s feelings and values pertaining to the attitude object. Can be sensory reaction (chocolate), conditioned (love warm comforters on rainy days), or value based (pro life/pro choice) Based on observation of how one behaves toward an attitude object. I recycled, so i must have a positive attitude toward environmental issues. Based primarily on a person"s beliefs about the properties of an attitude object. I like this vacuum cleaner because this one picks up more dirt . Preference for object changes due to its pairing with positive or negative stimuli. Agreement from others = reinforcement, strengthening tendency to express an attitude. Disagreement = punishment, reducing tendency to express an attitude. Implicit attitudes: covert, expressed automatically with little conscious control. Attraction (matching hypothesis, rationalization hypothesis, similarity effects, evolutionary perspective) Adult attachment style (secure, avoidant, anxious/ambivalent) and relations with infant attachment.
