Course Objectives
· To help students understand the definitions, components, and functions of attitudes.
· To demonstrate whether attitudes are consistent with behavior or not.
· To introduce students to both traditional and current theories of attitude change, persuasion, and resistance to attitude change attempts.
· To give students a better understanding of the way attitudes change researchers focus on attitudes (e.g., explicit vs implicit) and attitude change (e.g., single or dual processes).
· To familiarize students with the factors that influence and determine their own attitudes and changes in attitudes.
· To demonstrate the application of the theories to social problems by presenting several examples of intervention programs used for the real life problems.