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UHB2201: Human Relations

Lecture 12: Integration

Integrating values, attitudes & social cognition

Towards an integrative model of human behavior

  • Cognitive antecedents of behavior

    • prototype: typical summary representation of person type
    • schema: organized knowledge about specific domain of person or person type
    • script: organized knowledge describing sequence of events in specific situation
    • heuristic: rule to form judgment quickly, effortlessly
    • self-schema: organized knowledge about specific domain of self
    • self-complexity: thinking about self in many ways
    • self-efficacy: belief about self's ability to perform particular task
    • stereotype: negative beliefs about attributes of specific outgroup
    • value: belief that specific behavior or end-state is preferable
    • norm: standard of behavior

      Attitudinal/affective antecedents of behavior

      • attitude: judgmental/evaluative feeling toward person, person type or thing(s)
      • prejudice: negative feeling toward members of specific outgroup
      • affect: mood; pervasive, global feeling

    • Other personal or situational antecedents of behavior

Connections to other disciplines

  • History

    • Historical foundation of values
    • Childhood experiences & socialisation influence value formation.
      Examples:
      • Values of Chinese entrepreneurs
      • Born to Rebel

  • Writing

    • Articulation, explication, expression & transmission of values

  • Physical and biological sciences

    • Competing values in Science
    • Example: Apollo moon scientists
    • Balance facilitates progress

  • Qualitative and quantitative reasoning

    • Quantification of values
    • Decision theoretic approach
      • Assumes limited resources, allocation problems
      • "Willingness to Pay"
    • Limits of quantitative approach to values
    • Qualitative: Some values irreducible

  • Links to other disciplines

    • Philosophical inquiries
    • Civilizational studies

Think, Learn and Grow

  1. How has your view of yourself and others changed since the beginning of this module?

 
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