PSY100H1 Chapter : Psychological Science - Third Canadian Edition - Chapter Twelve Notes.docx

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: all

Document Summary

Implicit attitudes = attitudes that influence our feelings and behaviour at an unconscious level. Cognitive dissonance = an uncomfortable mental state due to conflicts between attitudes or between attitudes and behaviours. Elaboration likelihood model = a theory of how persuasive messages lead to attitude changes. Personal attributions = explanations that refer to internal characteristics, such as abilities, traits, moods and effort. Situational attributions = explanations that refer to external events, such as weather, accidents or actions of other people. Fundamental attribution error = the tendency to overemphasize personal factors and underestimate situational factors in explaining behaviour. Self-fulfilling prophecy = people"s tendency to behave in ways that confirm their own or others" expectations. Prejudice = occurs when the attitude associated with a stereotype is negative. Discrimination = the inappropriate and unjustified treatment of people solely on their group membership. Ingroup favouritism = the tendency for people to evaluate favourably and privilege members of the ingroup more than members of the outgroup.