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Attitude Change and Prejudice 20-2 Objectives • Cite the sources of attitude change • Describe prejudice and its relationship to stereotypes and roles Bell Ringer • Use overhead from the notebook • Read story p. 582 Attitude Change • Cognitive consistency- trying to fit a new situation into your existing assumptions. – Make a prejudgment about a situation that presents you from considering all the possibilities Attitude Change • Compliance – Change of behavior to avoid discomfort or rejection and gain approval • Identification – Seeing oneself as similar to another person or group and accepting the attitudes of another person or group as one’s own. Attitude Change • Internalization-incorporating the values, ideas, and standards of others as part of oneself. – Attitude is an integral part of the person – Is the most lasting of attitude formation Cognitive Consistency • Cognitive consistency- the idea that you are always trying to get things to fit logically inside your head • Cognitive dissonance-the uncomfortable feeling that arises when a person experiences contradictory or conflicting thoughts, attitudes, or beliefs. Attitudes and Actions • Actions can affect attitudes • Counterattitudinal behavior- the process of taking a public position that contradicts one’s private attitude. • Self-justification- the need to rationalize one’s attitude and behavior. Attitudes and Actions • Self-Fulfilling Prophecy-a belief, prediction, or expectation that operates to bring about its own fulfillment. Prejudice • Prejudice- preconceived attitudes toward a person or group that have been formed without sufficient evidence and are not easily changed. • Stereotype-an oversimplified, hard-to-change way of seeing people who belong to the same group or category Prejudice • Role- an oversimplfied, hard-to-change way of acting • Illusory correlation- we see relationships that match our set of beliefs while ignoring other relationships. Prejudice and Discrimination • Prejudice is an attitude, discrimination is an act • Discrimination-the unequal treatment of individuals on the basis of race, ethnic group, age, gender, or membership in another category rather than on the basis of individual characteristics.