Exam 4: Behaviour and Attitudes

When the measured attitude is general and the behaviour is very specific, we _________ expect a close correspondence between words and actions. Attitudes _______ predict behaviour in 26 studies in which the measured attitude was directly pertinent to the situation.

James is a Caucasian male who is involved in a study that is testing racial attitudes. He has been overtly asked what his attitudes about Aboriginal populations are, and then given a reaction time test where he has to select positive words that correspond to Aboriginal or Caucasian faces. This latter test is an example of what method of assessing racial attitudes?

A sales representative comes to your home and asks you to try a water filter system for a week, absolutely free, 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

Milford has always strongly believed that it is wrong to cheat. But after he himself cheats on a chemistry quiz, his attitude toward cheating becomes significantly less harsh. What best accounts for this attitude shift?

According to the text, which of the following is the practical lesson from research on the foot-in-the-door phenomenon?

You are hosting a Weight Watchers party for people who have reached their goal weight. You want to provide tasty snacks, but you don't want to encourage over-eating, either. How could you arrange things to help your friends eat sensibly, in accord with their new attitudes toward eating?

A person's attitude will be reflected in that person's

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

Jack is tempted to shoplift an expensive camera even though he has a negative attitude about shoplifting. Jack is least likely to steal the camera if

The effects of an attitude on behaviour become more apparent when we look at a person's average behaviour over time. This fact describes

The fact that we are prone to adjust our messages to our listeners and then believe the altered message defines the

According to the research by Burns Vaughan and John Lanzetta, you will feel more empathy for someone with whom you are interacting in person than for someone with whom you are interacting through the Internet because

Yolanda works for the Department of Motor Vehicles in the Canadian government and has developed a new legislation that requires yearly vehicle inspections and mandatory glass replacements for any damage to a vehicle's windshield or windows. According to the principles in your text, which outcome is most likely?

Although dissonance theory successfully explains what happens when we act contrary to clearly defined attitudes, it does not explain

Research by Daniel Batson found that 1 in 20 students felt that assigning themselves a positive task and another participant a dull task was the most moral thing to do. When then given the opportunity to assign tasks,

William James, self-perception theory, and research findings all suggest that

People who stopped to buy a cookie at a bake sale were told "Thank you for supporting your local women's centre." They were more likely to respond to a later appeal for donations for the women's centre than people who had not been to the bake sale. This illustrates

The text cites evil resulting from gradually escalating commitments as an example of

In the ABCs of attitudes, "A" stands for

The advantage of the bogus-pipeline technique is that it