Exam 7: Attitudes, Beliefs and Consistency

How does the notion of effort justification relate to cognitive dissonance?

One's perceptions about whether significant others believe a person should perform a behavior or not refers to one's ____.

Research on religious beliefs shows that appealing to a higher (superordinate) power can be an effective way to reduce ____.

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?

Zelda says that she likes dogs and that she is not afraid of them. But she gets visibly tense whenever a dog approaches, and refuses to visit any of her dog-owning friends at their homes. It appears that even though she says she likes dogs, Zelda has a negative ____ toward them.

Deliberate attitudes can be defined as ____ evaluative responses.

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

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

There is a stray cat in your neighborhood that you see every few days. At first, you did not really care about the cat at all. But, over time, as you saw her more and more, you began to develop warm and fuzzy feelings toward the cat. It appears that your attitudes toward the cat shifted as a result of the ____________________ effect.

Attitude accessibility refers to ____.

According to the text, possessing an attitude about something increases ____ of decision-making.

In Fritz Heider's balance theory, the fundamental paradigm for analyzing relationships is a(n) ____.

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

Which behavior best summarizes the text's conclusion about attitude-behavior consistency?

Explain the conditions under which the mere exposure effect holds true.

In Aldous Huxley's book Brave New World, infants develop a fear of books after books are repeatedly presented with a scary loud noise. In this fictional example, the loud noise is a(n) ____.

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.

As defined in the text, dual attitudes consist of ____.

Suppose that Anandi was mugged at gunpoint and that is was an extremely traumatic experience. Which of the following cognitive reactions is MOST likely to help her recover?

Consider the Ajzen and Fishbein's 1977 study for the problem of attitudes predicting behavior. In what way was this study inadequate?