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Sunday, February 6, 2011

QUESTIONS : Attitudes, Attributions and Social Cognition

QUESTIONS : Attitudes, Attributions and Social Cognition
1. Why are attitudes important constructs in social psychology?
2. If you were interested in predicting whether people’s attitudes towards low-fat foods predict their consumption of low-fat foods, which model of attitude-behaviour relations would you use to examine this issue, and why?
3. Imagine that you are designing a new ad campaign against careless driving. Using your knowledge of models of attitude change, how would your ads look and where would you place them?
4. Why are attributions important constructs in social psychology?
5. It could be suggested that the ‘fundamental attribution error’ is not really an error, because it helps us form useful judgements in a complex social world. Discuss the pros and cons of this argument.
6. Given the effects of culture on the occurrence of the fundamental attribution error, how would you set up an intervention to make people less likely to commit this ‘error’?
7. Why are schemas important constructs in social psychology?

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