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a) What is an attitude? b) What does it mean to say that attitudes follow behavior? c) Under what conditions can attitudes affect actions? d) Explain how the Abu Ghraib Prison fiasco might be an example of how role-playing affects attitudes
An attitude is a certain feeling of an individual that are influenced by the beliefs of that person, which makes them have various reactions to certain objects, people, and events in the society. The attitude of a person also affects their action, which make them believe that they must do something. An attitude can follow the behavior of the person because once we take a certain action we start to believe in what we did. If a person believe someone is harming them then they will be fearful and anxious …show more content…
This study showed if people were obedient or disobedient and that people were most likely to take certain actions by following the rules and orders when the person who did the experiment was nearby or in the sight of that participant, which made them to obey the demands given whereas when the person was not in sight, there were no models of disobedience. However, for Milgram’s study he chose a large sample size of one thousand participants and they were each chosen to play the role of being a teacher in the experiment. In addition, as a teacher they had to perform a certain action, such as teaching the person who is learning and then testing the person on the list of the word pairs. Thus, if the student gave the incorrect answer during the testing the teacher flips the switch “15-volts-slight shock” for each time it is wrong to deliver a brief electric shock that causes pain to the learner. Each time the teacher performs this action and the student response is incorrect the teacher has an increasing amount of high voltage and the learner receives a lot of shock. According to the study, we see that 65 percent of the male teachers who were adults obeyed the experimenter’s command to continue the study, even though they felt the threatening shocks up to …show more content…
Proximity is a factor of interpersonal attraction and is the predictor of friendship as well where an individual who is attracted to a certain person does a certain task with each other and are even always with or near each other, seeing each other everyday. Physical attractiveness is what people look out for when they meet a new person, where the person is physically attracted to others based on their looks. In an early age of dating, people date according to the partners they are more attracted to based on their physical appearance. Physical attractiveness tend to lead a positive impression to people where they may think that they are healthier, happier or intelligent. However, men value and look for physical attractiveness of women more than women do for men. Similarity is when people choose partners who have the same characteristics, personalities, education, intelligence and attitude as the person they are partners with, which shows the connection and relation that they have together and this can make the person become attracted to their partner because of these similarities. Similarity is also seen in friendships, where
a) What is an attitude? b) What does it mean to say that attitudes follow behavior? c) Under what conditions can attitudes affect actions? d) Explain how the Abu Ghraib Prison fiasco might be an example of how role-playing affects attitudes
An attitude is a certain feeling of an individual that are influenced by the beliefs of that person, which makes them have various reactions to certain objects, people, and events in the society. The attitude of a person also affects their action, which make them believe that they must do something. An attitude can follow the behavior of the person because once we take a certain action we start to believe in what we did. If a person believe someone is harming them then they will be fearful and anxious …show more content…
This study showed if people were obedient or disobedient and that people were most likely to take certain actions by following the rules and orders when the person who did the experiment was nearby or in the sight of that participant, which made them to obey the demands given whereas when the person was not in sight, there were no models of disobedience. However, for Milgram’s study he chose a large sample size of one thousand participants and they were each chosen to play the role of being a teacher in the experiment. In addition, as a teacher they had to perform a certain action, such as teaching the person who is learning and then testing the person on the list of the word pairs. Thus, if the student gave the incorrect answer during the testing the teacher flips the switch “15-volts-slight shock” for each time it is wrong to deliver a brief electric shock that causes pain to the learner. Each time the teacher performs this action and the student response is incorrect the teacher has an increasing amount of high voltage and the learner receives a lot of shock. According to the study, we see that 65 percent of the male teachers who were adults obeyed the experimenter’s command to continue the study, even though they felt the threatening shocks up to …show more content…
Proximity is a factor of interpersonal attraction and is the predictor of friendship as well where an individual who is attracted to a certain person does a certain task with each other and are even always with or near each other, seeing each other everyday. Physical attractiveness is what people look out for when they meet a new person, where the person is physically attracted to others based on their looks. In an early age of dating, people date according to the partners they are more attracted to based on their physical appearance. Physical attractiveness tend to lead a positive impression to people where they may think that they are healthier, happier or intelligent. However, men value and look for physical attractiveness of women more than women do for men. Similarity is when people choose partners who have the same characteristics, personalities, education, intelligence and attitude as the person they are partners with, which shows the connection and relation that they have together and this can make the person become attracted to their partner because of these similarities. Similarity is also seen in friendships, where