Exam 4: Behaviour and Attitudes

Mussweiler conducted a study where participants were instructed to move and act like how they believed someone who was obese would move, including wearing extra weights, and then give their impression about a target person. This study found that participants whose movements simulated obesity rated a described target person as

Myra's neighbour, a little boy, practices his saxophone loudly and annoyingly. According to the overjustification effect, if Myra wants to get him to quit playing, she should

Research on which of the following has revealed that people sometimes express attitudes that they do not privately hold?

A prevailing assumption that underlies most teaching, counselling, and child rearing has been that

Dissonance is

Festinger believed that people minimize dissonance through which of the following?

A sales representative comes to your home and asks you to try a water filter system for a week, absolutely free, and so you agree. The rep returns the next week and offers you an expensive contract to continue to rent the system and you agree. You are most clearly a victim of

After Gertrude reluctantly agreed to type her boyfriend's psychology term paper, he told her that it might actually be 75 pages long. Gertrude appears to be a potential victim of

Which of the following is cited in the text as an example of how changing behaviour can alter attitudes?

Children seem more likely to internalize their decisions to obey rules when the deterrent they are threatened with is ________ and they are given ________.

Our attitudes predict our actions when

Discuss the evidence for the statement, "We are likely to act ourselves into a way of thinking."

As self-perception theory implies, the overjustification effect can be avoided because ________ reward does not diminish intrinsic interest in an action, since people can still attribute the action to their own motivation.

Research has shown that implicit attitudes and explicit attitudes help predict people's behaviours and judgments.

Festinger and Carlsmith had experimental participants perform a dull task, but paid them to lie to a prospective participant that the task had been enjoyable. Results showed that the participants who were paid _____ came to believe the task had been ________________.