Attitudes, belief, perceptions

Attitudes, belief, perceptions

1. Attitudes

   • What is attitude
   • Attitude structure
     • Affective
       • The affective component in particular conceptually distinguishes an attitude from other psychological concepts including needs, motives, and traits.
     • Behavioural
     • Cognitive
   • Attitude formation and strength
     • Formation
       • Attitudes form through a variety of processes including direct experience and individual factors (personality/genetics).
     • Strength
       • Attitudes are connected to behavior, but there are other important factors to consider (1) situational influence (2) Attitude strength
   • Attitude change
     • something persuades the person
     • the norms of a social group important to the person affect attitudes
     • the person becomes uncomfortable with aspects of their beliefs
   • Explicit and Implicit attitudes
     • Explicit
       • An explicit attitude is one that a person is consciously aware of and can report, for eg. a self-report measure
     • Implicit
       • Implicit attitudes are evaluations that occur without conscious awareness towards an attitude object or the self

2. Job Satisfaction

   • Job characteristics
     • Job satisfaction is determined by the nature of our jobs or by the characteristics of the organisations in which we work
   • Social information processing
     • more satisfaction if there are more similarities about personalities of employees
   • Dispositions
     • Some employees have a tendency to be satisfied with their jobs, regardless of the nature of the job or organisation in which they work.
     • Traits predict satisfaction
       • Neuroticism
       • Conscientiousness
       • Extraversion

3. Perception

   • What is perception?
     • Cognitive processes by which we make sense of stimuli from the environment
   • Perceptual process
     • Inputs
     • Selection of inputs
   • Perceptual errors
     • Perceptual set
     • Stereotypes
   • Perceptions at work
   • Self-perception
     • Self-concept
     • Self-esteem
     • Self-presentation
   • Mis-perception
   • Social-perceptions

4. Heuristics and bias

   • Self-serving bias
   • Victim-blaming biases
     • Just-world fallacy
     • Defensive attribution

5. Attribution

   • The process of attributing explanations or causes of events or behaviors
   • The person or the situation
   • Attribution Theory