PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Terror Management Theory, Safe Sex
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Utilitarian function: function of attitudes that serves to alert people to rewarding objects or costly situations they should avoid they showed how ancestors benefitted from them. Ads preference with girls on it, landscape with water and river are preferred because. We develop certain attitudes to maintain cherished beliefs about ourselves or our world. Terror management theory: our fear of dying leads us to adopt attitudes that reflect. Ego-defensive function: attitudinal function that enables people to maintain cherished beliefs about themselves and their world by protecting them from contradictory info. cultural worldviews out of a belief that if we do so, part of us will survive death. Value expressive function: function whereby attitudes help people express most cherished values: usually in groups beliefs. Reference groups: groups whose opinion matter to a person and that affect person"s. Knowledge function: attitudinal function whereby attitudes help organize people"s understand of the world, guiding how they attend to, store, and retrieve info.
