Unit 2 AOS 1 - Attitudes (1)

Social cognition..

• focuses on how people process, store, and apply information about other people and social situations.

• focuses on how people judge other people

• focuses on how people perceive other people

• focuses on how people process, store, and apply information about other people to make judgments about themselves

Social cognitions are made up of:

• Perceptions and attributions

• Positive and negative attitudes and stereotypes

• Prejudice and discrimation

• All of the above

Inferences we make about events, our own and others behaviour is called?

• A perception

• An attribution

• An attitude

• A stereotype

A belief that certain groups of people have certain characteristics is called?

• A perception

• An attricution

• An attitude

• A stereotype

If you tell your friends you like math, this is an example of?

• an implicit attitude

• an explicit attitude

• a stereotype

• a perception

If a child who is regularly exposed to negative ideas about aging, develops an anxiety about aging in adulthood, what is this an example of?

• An Implicit attitude

• An Explicit attitude

• A Steroetype

• A Perception

What is this diagram more commonly called in Psychology?

• The ABC Model of attitude

• The Behaviour predictor model

• The Components of attitude

• The Tri-component model of attitude

If butterflies make you happy, and you think they are harmless, but, you jump when one lands on your hand....

• Your cognition and attitude match your behaviour

• Your cognition does not match your attitude or behaviour

• Your cognition matches your attitude or behaviour

• Your cognition and attitude do not match your behaviour

If you love your parents, and respect how they have raised you, so you do not have a party at home without their permission...

• Your cognition and attitude match your behaviour

• Your cognition and attitude do not match your behaviour

• Your cognition does not match your attitude and bahaviour

• Your attitude does not match your cognition and behaviour

If you think all Latin people are good dancers, this is an example of?

• A positive steroetype

• A negative steroetype

• A positive prejudice

• A negative prejudice