Identify the Difference Between Attitude Formation, Stereotyping, and Prejudice and Evaluate the Likely Success of at Least Two Methods of Reducing Prejudice

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Identify the difference between attitude formation, stereotyping, and prejudice and evaluate the likely success of at least two methods of reducing prejudice In this essay I am going to analyse the likely success of two methods of reducing prejudice throughout this essay, these methods are the Jigsaw Technique (Aronson et al. 1977) and the Robbers Cave (Sheriff et al 1961). Firstly going to identify the difference between attitude formation, stereotyping and prejudice. Attitude formation is how our attitudes are formed from both our own experience and emotional reactions. It was first suggested by Allport (1954) that attitudes contained three main components which are the affective component, behavioural component and cognitive component. Pennington (1999) later identified four main functions of attitude, the adaptive function, knowledge function, self-expression and ego-defensive. It is the understanding of these components and functions within attitude formation that contribute to understanding prejudice. In 1969 Tagiuri defines stereotyping as ‘the general inclination to place a person into categories according to some easily and quickly identifiable characteristics such as age, sex, ethnic membership, nationality or occupation, and then to attribute to them qualities believed to be typical to members of that category.’ Aronson et al (2001) state prejudice as an attitude, but also state that they can either be positive or negative. It was quoted ‘prejudice a hostile or negative attitude towards a distinguishable group of people, based solely on their membership in that group.’ Now that the difference between attitude formation, stereotyping and prejudice has been established, they will now analyse two methods to reduce prejudice. The first method the author will analyse is the Jigsaw Technique (Aronson et al. 1977). It was suggested that prejudice can be

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