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.