List of top Psychology Questions on Attitude and Social Cognition

Prejudice can be difficult to change due to its deep-rooted sources. Imagine you are working on a community outreach programme aiming to reduce prejudice. How would you explain the main causes that lead to development of prejudice?
Specify any two processes, that help in attitude formation and explain how it occurs.
In an attitude change, when the change is in the same direction as the existing attitude (for example, a positive attitude may become more positive, or a negative attitude may become more negative), this is called:
According to the concept of balance proposed by Fritz Heider, imbalance is found when:
(i) All three sides of the P-O-X triangle are negative.
(ii) Two sides of the P-O-X triangle are negative and one side is positive.
(iii) Two sides of the P-O-X triangle are positive and one side is negative.
(iv) All three sides of the P-O-X triangle are positive.