Attitudes
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- Created on: 15-08-17 18:41
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- Attitudes
- Definition
- A predisposition to act in a particular way towards something or someone in a person's environment
- Attitudes are learnt
- Attitudes are a mix of emotions, beliefs and behaviour
- If an attitude is based on false information, it becomes prejudice
- Negative attitudes
- Negative past experiences
- Fear of failure
- Negative role models
- Low self-confidence
- High task difficulty
- Fear of activity
- Changing Attitudes
- Persuasive communication
- Attitudes are altered by persuasion
- Three considering factors
- Status of persuader
- Person attempting the change
- Quality of the message
- Clear and accurate
- Characteristics of those being persuaded
- Understand but may not accept the change
- Status of persuader
- Cognitive Dissonance
- Takes into account the triadic model
- If one of the components is challenged, the person will experience a feeling of psychological discomfort known as dissonance
- After reviewing the new information, a new attitude is formed
- Persuasive communication
- Triadic Model
- Cognitive
- Past Experiences
- Beliefs
- Example: A footballer has good experiences with training
- Affective
- Emotions
- Our emotional response or feelings to the attitude object
- Example: A footballer has positive emotions about their sport
- Behavioural
- Actions
- Our intended or actual behaviour towards the attitude object
- Example: The footballer will train regularly
- A-B-C
- Cognitive
- Forming an attitude
- Knowing how attitudes are formed can help us to decrease prejudice
- Four main affecting factors
- Peer groups
- Operant conditioning
- Enjoyment
- Relaxation
- Peer groups
- Friends and significant others
- Operant conditioning
- Rewards will strengthen attitudes / punishment will weaken attitudes.
- Enjoyment
- Enjoyment of the activity will strengthen the attitude
- Relaxation
- A form f relaxation and escape from stress will strengthen the attitude
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