Exam 5: Attitudes and Attitude Change

Our attitudes predict our behavior when

Research has indicated that there are two separate components of credibility: expertise and ________.

You have a negative attitude toward chemistry because your chemistry teacher was a hostile, angry man who liked to belittle students. Your attitude toward chemistry was probably formed through

The ________ component of an attitude consists of the person's tendency to act regarding the object.

When we see inconsistency between attitudes and behavior, it is often because the attitudes are __________ or held ambivalently.

Extreme amounts of distraction tend to enhance the persuasiveness of a message.

__________ approaches to attitude formation assert that we seek consistency among our attitudes and between attitudes and behavior.

Which of the following is likely to increase David's commitment to the belief that people should not eat meat?

A person who decides that the communicator advocating an unpopular position is simply unreliable and uninformed is engaging in ________.

The less commitment someone feels toward a decision, the more dissonance they will feel.

Describe cognitive response theory and how it influences our attitudes.

Counterarguing makes people more susceptible to influence.

Which type of person is most likely to scrutinize arguments closely?

Research suggests that information from outgroups is processed at the central level.

Kurt is especially likely to be convinced by the television network's legal commentator if he believes the commentator is

The self-perception process is most likely to occur when

How does making a decision produce dissonance? Explain and give an example.

Reference groups are effective in producing change because of __________ and similarity.

Balance theory and cognitive dissonance theory are both examples of the ________ framework.

Performing attitude discrepant behaviors generally changes a person's __________.