Exam 7: Attitudes, Beliefs, and Consistency

Suppose that Sam disliked reggaeton the very first time he heard it. How should we expect his attitude to change (if at all)if he hears it several more times?

Conservatives tend to rely on conservative media outlets while liberals tend to rely on media outlets. What is this phenomenon called?

Who has the most accessible attitude?

Research on gender and sexuality indicates that ________________ show less consistency than ________________ in terms of (a)their stated attitudes about sex and (b)their actual behaviors.

When the offering plate is passed at her church, Pat rarely puts any money in it. She always looks at the offering as a financial question in terms of her own books. She has never thought of it in terms of an indicator of her faith. Pat is a devout believer in the teachings of her church. Pat's attitude-behavior inconsistency results from ____.

As discussed in the text, there are three types of beliefs that help people to function effectively in the social world, and that are often cast into doubt when people experience violent crimes or other traumas. Which statement is one of these?

Research suggests that the abstract categories "good" and "bad" are ____.

Which of the following best describes behavioral aggregation as a solution to the problem of attitude-behavior inconsistency?

Alex just bought a car last month and it is already having major mechanical problems. In which of the following cases is Alex least likely to experience cognitive dissonance?

Festinger and Carlsmith (1959)performed a famous experiment on cognitive dissonance in which subjects were asked to lie to a fellow student (about how fun a psychology experiment was)for either $1 or $20. For subjects in the $1 condition, dissonance was created because these subjects thought to themselves: "I am a nice, ethical person, but I have just been mean and told a lie." It appears that the $1 subjects were ultimately able to reduce this dissonance by thinking to themselves: ____.

Research on effort justification and cognitive dissonance theory might suggest that we will be more attracted to potential dating partners who ____ than potential dating partners who ____.

As discussed in the text, people who hold irrational attitudes (e.g., about Big Foot, UFOs, and ghosts)tend to ____.

Social psychologists use the term ____ to refer to the fact that research reveals only a weak relationship between people's stated attitudes and actual behaviors.

According to________________, if you go through a severe hazing process, you will be more loyal to the group you are joining.

Suppose that you show your uncle an abstract painting that you have made, and ask for his immediate, unedited reaction. Your uncle says he has no opinion about it. "I am not familiar with abstract art," he tells you, "therefore I don't know how to evaluate it; and I have no intuitive feeling about it." Could this be possible?

The term ____ is used to refer to the idea that people live and function in the social universe based on certain beliefs about reality.

As discussed in the textbook, people's deliberate attitudes are not always consistent with their automatic attitudes. This can occur as a result of ____.

Research on gender differences in sex-related attitudes and behaviors indicates that ____ show relatively more attitude-behavior consistency, and that this is largely owing to the fact that ____.

A study (Ajzen and Fishbein, 1977)conducted to defend attitudes as a construct predictive of behavior found that if you want to predict who will give blood, you should place which of the following statements on your attitude measure? (Assume a five-point Likert scale anchored by strongly disagree to strongly agree.)

Which statement best describes the influence of attitudes?