Exam 7: Attitudes, Beliefs, and Consistency

Automatic attitudes can be defined as ____ evaluative responses.

Research on post-trauma coping indicates that one of the worst possible things-in terms of predicting post-trauma recovery-is for people to ____.

On a questionnaire, June is asked if she plans to donate blood or not. The researcher is measuring June's ___,

Research indicates that men show less attitude-behavior consistency than women when it comes to sexuality.

Ingrid believes there is a dog in the car. Even after she has looked absolutely everywhere in the car and found no evidence whatsoever of a dog, she continues to believe this. This scenario best exemplifies ____.

In general, people do not like to suffer, work hard, or make sacrifices. If and when they do these things, they want to feel that their efforts were worthwhile. Thus, even when people's efforts do not actually seem to have paid off, people will nonetheless try to convince themselves that they suffered for a good reason. This tendency is known as ____.

Social psychologists use the word ____ to refer to how people deal with traumas and return, post-trauma, to healthy, effective functioning.

Social media research has found that about ____ of job applicants are rejected because of what a prospective employer found on their Facebook page.

Research suggests that the more people think about their attitudes, the stronger their attitudes tend to become. For example, the more a Lakers fan thinks about how much she likes the Lakers, the more of a die-hard fan she is likely to become. This effect is called ____.

Chandler wants to give blood at the school blood drive, and he plans to try to do so. But he knows that he will probably be turned away because of a medicine he is on. Chandler has a positive attitude toward blood donation, but what element of the Theory of Planned Behavior inhibits his ability to behave consistently with his attitude?

Research on effort justification and cognitive dissonance theory could be most easily used to explain ____.

As discussed in the text, ____ serve interpersonal functions.

Distinguish between automatic attitudes and deliberate attitudes. How do they function and what purposes do they serve? How do they relate to one another? How can they be measured?

Suppose that Dylan has a new girlfriend whom he really likes. He programs his cell phone so that every time his new girlfriend calls, his phone plays the new Justin Timberlake single. After he has had his phone programmed this way for a little while, he notices that he feels happy whenever he hears the Justin Timberlake song. What is the best term for the role of the Justin Timberlake song?

When a person intends to perform a behavior, attitude-behavior consistency ____.

Research on embodied attitudes suggests that ____.

Whether a person plans to perform a behavior in question refers to ___,

As discussed in the text, gamblers use tricks to ____.

Which of the following is the best example of a positive deliberate attitude toward snakes?

The results of Festinger and Carlsmith's (1959)study of cognitive dissonance suggest that ____.