Exam 7: Attitudes, Beliefs and Consistency

Research in social cognition has more or less suggested that evaluation is part of perception.

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 MOST clearly exemplifies the notion of ____________________.

Research has shown that there is a difference between how readily bad pictures versus good pictures are recognized by people. At about ____, ____ tend to be recognized more quickly.

Jerome thinks that it is going to be crowded at the gym today. This is an example of a(n) ____.

Research has demonstrated that people are more likely to imitate behaviors if they have seen others rewarded for performing those behaviors, and less likely to imitate behaviors if they have seen others punished for performing those behaviors. This type of learning is known as ____.

Briefly discuss the research on cognitive coping. When people experience traumas, what sorts of cognitive responses are likely to be most helpful in promoting recovery?

In terms of how it is experienced, cognitive dissonance most closely resembles ____.

In one well-known study that was conducted during an era of anti-Chinese prejudice (LaPiere, 1934), a researcher drove across the U.S. with a Chinese couple, stopping at dozens of restaurants, hotels, auto camps, and tourist homes. He was interested in knowing the percentage of establishments that would serve the couple, as well as the percentage of establishments that would SAY that they would serve the couple when contacted later. The results from this research provided some of the first evidence of ____.

The mere exposure effect refers to the tendency for people to ____.

Which scientist proposed the notion of embodied attitudes?

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

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

In a classic study, the word Dutch was systematically paired with positive words (e.g., vacation, gift), whereas the word Swedish was paired with negative words (e.g., bitter, failure). When tested afterward, participants ____.

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

Which of the following is the best example of the mere exposure effect?

The so-called A-B problem refers to the fact that ____.

Research using the Implicit Association Test ("IAT") has found that both younger people and older people show a preference for young faces over old faces. The authors of the IAT have suggested that this finding occurs because ____.

When advertisers need to help sell a low-quality product, they often make ads that use loud music and distracting images (as opposed to ads that explicitly and straightforwardly discuss the features of the product). This is probably a good strategy because it is likely to foster ____ processing of the ad's claims, and in turn to ____.

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 ____.

Research suggests that learning via classical conditioning is unique to humans (and that other animals cannot learn this way).