QCAA Psychology Attitudes

Self-serving bias is the tendency to view ourselves more favourably than others in the same position, whereas confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, recall and interpret information to suit pre-existing beliefs.

Implicit attitudes are unconscious attitudes that individuals are often unaware they hold, even though they may influence their behaviour.
An implicit attitude may be revealed to the person as they experience a feeling of discomfort when presented with a situation in which there is a discrepancy between their beliefs and behaviours.

Identification occurs when a person changes their behaviour or thinking to be more like someone they want to emulate.
Identification could lead to cognitive dissonance as it could prompt behaviours (copied from someone you identify with) that are discrepant with existing attitudes.

A dispositional attribution is the tendency to assign responsibility for the behaviour of others to their inherent characteristics, rather than the external (situational) influences that stem from the environment or culture in which that individual is found.
Culture 1 participants were proportionally more likely to use dispositional attributions for antisocial behaviours than culture 2.
This is seen in the data table, where in culture 1 dispositional attributions were proportionally used up to 0.45, whereas for culture 2 they were used only up to 0.15.
Additionally, the proportion of dispositional attributions increases considerably earlier for culture 1 than for culture 2.
This is seen in the data table as the proportion of dispositional attributions made at 11 years old (0.13 in culture 1) is similar to adults in culture 2 (0.15).