Exam 4: Behavior and Attitudes

Omar and Nadia are a newly married couple.They work in multinational companies.Omar receives a job offer from an overseas company.As a result,they are required to relocate abroad.Nadia has to decide if she wants to stay back and continue with her current job or move abroad with her husband where she will have limited job opportunities.In this scenario,after arriving at a decision,Nadia can reduce her dissonance by:

The finding that religious attitudes predict the total quantity of religious behaviors over time across many situations defines:

According to the theory of _____,you can best predict a person's behavior when you know that person's intended behaviors and their perceived self-efficacy and control.

Which of the following statements is true of dissonance theory?

Ji-woo wakes up one morning and feels happy and cheerful.She concludes that she must be happy because her best friend paid her a visit the previous evening after a long time.In the context of psychology,which of the following theories supports Ji-woo's conclusion?

You have recently been promoted to manager of the firm where you work.You decide to use your knowledge of social psychology to improve the working conditions of your subordinates.You know that dissonance theory predicts that attitudes will follow behaviors for which we feel some responsibility.Therefore,you decide to use _____ to elicit the desired behaviors in your subordinates.

If the number of people in favor of same-sex marriages increases after a law is passed allowing such marriages,this will be an example of how:

Once we make a decision or choice,and feel some cognitive dissonance,we _____.

The disjuncture between attitudes and actions is what Daniel Batson and his colleagues call _____,appearing moral while avoiding the costs of being so.

The daily flag salute by schoolchildren in the United States is an attempt to use _____ to build _____.

In 1964,Leon Festinger observed that:

Based on studies conducted by implicit attitude researchers,which of the following statements is true of implicit biases?

Diener and Wallbom (1976)found that when research participants were instructed to stop working on a problem after a bell sounded,71% continued working when left alone.How many continued working after the bell if they were made self-aware by working in front of a mirror?

Attitudes include all of the following EXCEPT:

According to Rosenfeld et al.(1980)and Sansone (1986),rewards that seek to control people and lead them to believe it was the reward that caused their effort diminish the intrinsic appeal of an enjoyable task.In the context of psychology,this behavior is likely caused by:

Festinger and Carlsmith (1959)found that when people act in a manner that is contrary to their internal attitudes they feel uncomfortable.To reduce this discomfort,they may change their attitudes.This is known as:

In the context of thought-control programs and POWs (prisoners of war),prisoners were _____ to comply with a significant request if they complied with a trivial request first.

_____ assumes that when our attitudes are weak or ambiguous,we infer them by looking at our behavior and the circumstances under which it occurs.In other words,we deduce our attitudes in the same manner as would an outside observer.

Which theory states that people often experience a self-image threat after engaging in an undesirable behavior,and they can compensate by affirming another aspect of the self?

Which theory assumes that when our attitudes are weak,we will simply observe our behavior and its circumstances and then infer our attitudes?