Attitudes Lesson 1 Review

How we interpret, analyse, remember and use information to make judgement about others in different social situations

• Clinical Psychology

• Social cognition

• Cultural Psychology

The mental processes we use to form impressions and draw conclusions about the personal characteristics of other people

• Perception

• IQ

• Intuition

• Person perception

The process by which people explain the causes of their own and other's behaviour

• Attribution

• Cognition

• Intuition

• Bias

Overestimating the influence of personal factors and underestimating situational factors on other people's behaviour

• Fundamental attribution error

• Just world belief

• Actor-observer bias

• Self-serving bias

The science of actions and mental processes of people and animal is called what? 

• Psychology
• Philosophy
• Attribution Theory
• Social Psychology

The three components of the tri-component model of attitudes include: 

• Attribution, behaviour, component
• Affective, Behaviour, component
• Affective, Behavioural & Cognitive
• Attribution, Behavioural & Cognitive

The expression ‘I hate country music’ is an example of which of the components (tri-component model)

• Behavioural
• Cognitive
• Affective

The tri-component model proposes that all three components must be present before it can be said that an attitude exists.

• True
• False

Fill in the blank 
At attitude is a/n __________ a person makes about an object, person, group, event or issue.

• Judgement
• Evaluation
• Belief
• Opinion