Exam 7: Attitudes and Attitude Change: Influencing Thoughts and Feelings

Gerald Lambert invented Listerine as a surgical antiseptic for throat infections, but was able to market it to a wider audience by

Brenna's attitude about shoes would be composed of all of the following components except

All of the following are characteristics of affectively based attitudes except that they are

Recall that in the 1930s, when anti-Asian prejudice was commonplace in the United States, LaPiere (1934) had no trouble finding pleasant accommodations for himself and his Chinese traveling companions. Surprised, LaPiere later sent letters to the establishments they visited, asking whether Chinese visitors would be welcome. More than 90 percent of those who responded replied that they definitely would not accommodate Chinese. Although LaPiere's study suggests that there is a weak link between attitudes and behavior, his results should be interpreted with caution. Why?

The Yale Attitude Change approach to persuasion yielded a great deal of information about the attitude change process, but there was one major problem with the approach; it

According to reactance theory, which of the following persuasion attempts will meet with the least resistance when a parent tries to convince his child to keep her room clean?

When we seek to infer our attitudes, one reason that relying on moods or emotions as heuristics can mislead us is that

In a recent study of implicit attitudes by Rudman and her colleagues (2007), people who were close to their mothers and whose mothers were ________ tended to have more positive implicit attitudes about overweight people.

Social psychologists have long observed that attitudes do not always predict behaviors. When are attitudes most likely to predict spontaneous behaviors?

Jenny was obese as a child, but is currently a normal weight for her height. Based on research by Rudman and her colleagues (2007) presented in your text, Jenny is most likely to have a ________ attitude about overweight people.

Which of the following best illustrates an implicit attitude?

Attitudes are of course an individual internal phenomenon, yet they are of tremendous interest to social psychologists. Why?

An attitude based on operant conditioning is formed when a behavior toward an attitude object is

Lenoir is taking a test to see if she's prejudiced toward elderly people. Because it's difficult to assess her implicit attitudes, she's most likely

People may have difficulty in changing a number of health-related behaviors because of low perceived behavior control. This problem is least likely to interfere with people's

Public service ads often try to raise fear in an audience to induce people to change unhealthy behaviors. If fear appeals are used, it is crucial to provide the audience with _______ to increase the likelihood of behavior change.

Research by Leventhal and his colleagues (1967) was described in the text. In the experiment, the researchers showed one group of smokers a film depicting the ravages of lung cancer, gave another group of smokers a pamphlet with instructions on how to quit smoking, and exposed a third group to both the film and the pamphlets. People in the last group reduced their smoking significantly more than people in the other two groups because

Research by Leventhal and his colleagues (1967) was described in the text. In the experiment, the researchers showed one group of smokers a film depicting the ravages of lung cancer, gave another group of smokers a pamphlet with instructions on how to quit smoking, and exposed a third group to both the film and the pamphlets. People in the last group reduced their smoking significantly more than people in the other two groups because people who only

Complete the following analogy: explicit attitude is to implicit attitude as

According to the authors, advertisers who market such products as deodorants, mouthwashes, and room deodorizers succeed because they