Attitudinal Influences on Information Processing and Decision Making

Attitudes influence various stages of information processing, such as attention, interpretation, and memory. It is through their influence that you attend to only a portion of the information in your environment; and, although you may attend to the same information as another individual, the attitudes you hold can influence how the information is interpreted. Your attitudes also can influence your ability to remember information, as well as the details you recall.

For this Discussion, select two stages of information processing. Consider how attitudes influence information processing and decision making.

In the essay,
1. Give a brief description of the two stages of information processing you selected.
2. Then, provide examples of how attitudes influence each of those stages of information processing.
3. Finally, explain how these influences may help or hinder decision making.

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💡Support your response with references to the Learning Resources and other scholarly literature.
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READINGS

• Bargh, J. A. (1982). Attention and automaticity in the processing of self-relevant information. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 43(3), 425–436.
• Eagly, A. H., Chen, S., Chaiken, S., & Shaw-Barnes, K. (1999). The impact of attitudes on memory: An affair to remember. Psychological Bulletin, 125(1), 64–89.

• Houston, D. A., & Fazio, R. H. (1989). Biased processing as a function of attitude accessibility: Making objective judgments subjectively. Social Cognition, 7(1), 51–66.

• Roskos-Ewoldsen, D. R., & Fazio, R. H. (1992). On the orienting value of attitudes: Attitude accessibility as a determinant of an object’s attraction of visual attention. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 63(2), 198–211.

• Sanbonmatsu, D. M., & Fazio, R. H. (1990). The role of attitudes in memory-based decision making. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 59(4), 614–622.

• Smith, E. R., Fazio, R. H., & Cejka, M. A. (1996). Accessible attitudes influence categorization of multiple categorizable objects. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 71(5), 888–898.