Attitudes, behaviour and persuasion
Whole chapter · 11–17 focused hours
Attitudes, behaviour and persuasion
A first-time GS IV learner who can read analytical prose and knows the broad role of public administration. No philosophy or psychology degree assumed.
Includes
- Assigned sections and concise recall notes
- Available mapped practice and analysis of mistakes
- One initial closed-book review
Separate time needed
- Full-length GS IV mocks
- Repeated revision cycles
- Specialist philosophy or psychology coursework
- Professional ethics certification
Editorial planning estimate; not learner timing data
- Content and structure
- Functions of attitudes
- Learning attitudes
- Changing attitudes
- Persuasion mechanisms
- Attitudes and action
- Bias in social judgment
- Moral and political attitudes
- Social influence on judgment and action
Whole chapter reading
- Attitude and Social Cognition ↗
Nature and Components of Attitudes, printed pages 105–107, PDF pages 2–4
- Definition, Concept, Description, Characteristic of Attitude ↗
Sections 1.5.1–1.5.5, PDF pages 9–10; conceptual descriptions, not stereotyped examples
- Attitude and Social Cognition ↗
Process of Attitude Formation, printed pages 107–108, PDF pages 4–5
- Attitude and Social Cognition ↗
Attitude Change, printed pages 109–114, PDF pages 6–11; omit historical experiment details and health-advertisement claims
- Attitudes and Values ↗
Section 7.4.1, PDF pages 4–5: Elaboration Likelihood Model and opening resistance definitions only
- Attitude and Social Cognition ↗
Attitude–Behaviour Relationship, printed pages 114–115, PDF pages 11–12
- Attitude and Social Cognition ↗
Prejudice and Discrimination and Strategies for Handling Prejudice, printed pages 115–117, PDF pages 12–14; omit victim-blaming self-fulfilling-prophecy claim
- Definition, Concept, Description, Characteristic of Attitude ↗
Section 1.3.1: values, symbolic attitudes and instrumental attitudes; omit the vegetarian-availability example
- What Is Public Opinion and Where Does It Come From? ↗
Section 5.4: definitions of public opinion, socialisation and ideology; omit demographic and party stereotypes
- Conformity, Compliance, and Obedience ↗
Section 12.4, Table 12.2 and corresponding definitions; historical experiments and geopolitical examples excluded