Exam 6: Attitudes: Making Evaluations About the World

Lisa has a positive attitude toward working out at the gym.She believes that spending time at the gym benefits her health.This represents which component of her attitude?

Festinger and Carlsmith (1959)asked participants to perform a boring task and then paid them either 20 dollars or 1 dollar to lie to the next participant by telling them that the study was enjoyable.Afterwards they asked participants to rate how much they liked the task.The 'surprising' finding from Festinger and Carlsmith's study was:

If we experience some form of reinforcement for a behavior,our attitude should get more positive toward that behavior.

Who conducted a classic study illustrating the idea that attitudes are not always predicative of behavior?

You try a new type of food and then you get sick because of the flu.You develop a negative attitude toward that food and feel sick to your stomach every time you see or smell it.Name the type of conditioning described in this example.Identify and describe the unconditioned stimulus,unconditioned response,conditioned stimulus,and conditioned response.

Bob was recently in a car accident that paralyzed him from the waist down.He realizes the driver that hit him was not to blame,but he has very mixed emotions towards this person.Bob's attitude is ___________.

The Implicit Associations Test is a measure used to assess explicit attitudes.

If a researcher wants to assess implicit attitudes,she should probably NOT use a self-report measure because:

Psychologist Laurie A.Rudman identified which of the following as a factor that differentiates between implicit and explicit attitudes?

Festinger and Carlsmith (1959)asked participants to perform a boring task and then paid them either $20 or $1 to lie to the next participant,telling them that the task was enjoyable.Afterwards they asked participants to rate how much they liked the task.Participants who received $1 rated the task as more enjoyable than participants who received $20.What has been proposed as a likely reason for this result?

The "new look" model of cognitive dissonance postulates 4 steps that must occur for people to experience and attempt to reduce cognitive dissonance.Which of the following was NOT mentioned as one of those steps?

Classical conditioning was first demonstrated by __________ in his famous experiment with dogs.

If a researcher wants to know whether college students attitudes toward recycling predict their recycling behavior which of the following questions should she ask?

___________ is defined as having an evaluative component towards a stimulus that is made up of affective,behavioral,and cognitive information.

When you are forming an attitude about an idea,object,or person you are more likely to focus on the negative information over the positive information.This is termed __________.

Bob is watching a news show on the issue of abortion.As a result,his attitude about abortion is now active in his consciousness.This demonstrates the idea of __________

During her childhood,Holly sees that her mother disapproves of same-sex marriages.Through watching her mother,Holly ends up adopting a similar viewpoint.This could be considered an example of what type of learning?

According to the name-letter effect Matthew Morrison will:

What do positive punishment and negative punishment have in common?

An attitude that is accessible all the time refers to ___________.