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

According to the elaboration-likelihood and the heuristic-systematic models of persuasion,the two key factors that will determine whether we engage in effortful or effortless processing of information are one's ________.

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 attitudes toward a particular behavior,and ________.

When people have a vested interest in terms of an attitude object,they exhibit greater extremity of attitude about that attitude object.But what other mental or behavior process do these people exhibit?

A message intended to reduce cheating among high school students is more likely to be effective if it is delivered by ________.

Messages that arouse moderate levels of fear are effective at changing behavior if they ________.

Tina,who favors the death penalty,hears two different,though persuasive,messages: one favoring the death penalty and one against it.Tina will likely report ________ oppositional (than supportive)thoughts about the counterattitudinal message (the message arguing against her attitude),and ________ supportive (than oppositional)thoughts about the proattitudinal message (the message in line with her attitude).Because of this experience,she will be ________ able to resist counterattitudinal persuasion in the future on this topic.

Joe,a middle manager at a small company,strongly identifies with the higher-ups at his job.Regarding various political statements by them,it is safe to say that Joe ________.

LaPiere's research with the Chinese couple pointed out the ________.

Research has demonstrated that thinking about the future consequences of having one's daughter vaccinated for HPV led parents to have relatively more ____ thoughts as compared to ____ thoughts.

When heuristic processing is involved,the degree of persuasion ________.

We may believe that others' attitudes are different from our own - a situation known as ________.

In the theory of planned behavior,once our behavioral options are considered,their consequences are evaluated,and a decision is reached to act or not,that decision then manifests itself in ________.

Context is an essential component in all of social psychological research.What role does the social context play in the expression of attitudes? Describe this linkage in terms of attitude-behavior consistency,attitude certainty,the role that perceptions of the social context might play in planned behavior,how social context might be involved in the intersection of persuasion and reactance,when forewarning doesn't work to enhance resistance to persuasion.

Marshall wants to pledge Theta Phi fraternity.He may well ________ publicly,believing active member decision-makers will hear of his views.He is,in private,________ to express those same views.

Arlene was always averse to physical contact with pigs,because she thought pigs were essentially dirty animals.Despite her concerns,she was induced to kiss a clean-looking pig on the snout for $ 2.00 while appearing on a television game show.As a result,Arlene has become a staunch advocate of pigs,and soon plans to have one as a pet.The most probable explanation for this change in attitude is the ________.

Cognitive dissonance arises when we notice a discrepancy between our attitudes and our behaviors.One way we can reduce the dissonance is by ________.

Once an attitude has been formed,it may be ________.

Overall,the relationship between attitudes and behavior is ________.

To increase the effectiveness of a message,the communicator (source)should be credible and ________.

Attitudes influence ________.