Exam 5: Attitudes: Evaluating and Responding to the Social World

Research suggests that the certainty of an attitude derives from a(n)________.

One way to reduce cognitive dissonance is to engage in self-affirmation.In what case of cognitive dissonance might we be more likely to use this indirect method for dissonance reduction? If you did something that induced some dissonance,and you used self-affirmation to reduce your dissonance,how would you personally go about it?

Whistle-blowers generally "blow the whistle" on corporate misbehavior because of what three attributes?

In what health context might positive messages be much better than fear-inducing messages for effecting behavior change?

In the study involving the effects of caffeine and distraction on the effectiveness of persuasive messages,researchers found that ________ relevant to the arguments about the attitude object ________ in the ________ condition because ________.

The heuristic-systematic model of persuasion suggests that we engage in ________.

Attitudes may be relatively stable or variable.A likely source of a change in the expression of an attitude is ________.

One reason that distractions may increase the persuasiveness of a message is because distractions ________.

The first step we take in making a decision about pursuing a particular behavior is to consider ________,according to the theory of planned behavior.

Students entering college who had social networks with more ____ attitudes toward affirmative action exhibited ____ change over the following two months.

Selective avoidance is our tendency to ________.

Attitudes formed on the basis of direct personal experience with the object are generally ________.

According to the theory of planned behavior,our behavioral intentions are determined in part by our perceptions of whether others will approve or disapprove of the behavior,our perceptions of our ability to perform the behavior,and ________.

Jacque is driving,thinking about ways to get in shape.Someone cuts him off in traffic,so he gets angry and calls the driver a name.He later goes to the gym to start an exercise program.Research by ________ is more likely to explain his angry behavior,while ________'s research better explains Jacque's behavior toward the exercise program.

Efforts to change our attitudes by using different kinds of messages is (are)known as ________.

A CEO of a mid-western company gave a press briefing and espoused some fairly restrictive regulations aimed to reduce carbon emissions and water pollution.His excellent credibility was probably due to the fact that ________.

Experimenters gave people strong arguments to persuade them away from a belief.Some were given coffee,others a placebo.Some were given a high distraction,others a low one.In terms of attitude change,results showed that ________.

The central route to persuasion involves ________.

In an experiment,males and females were shown a snack labeled "men's favorite" or "women's favorite." The snack labeled as preferred by their own gender was liked better by high-gender-identified participants more so than by participants who were low-gender-identified.This showed that ________.

People have a limited capacity to engage their will power in the controlling of their own thinking.This is called ________.