Deck 9: The Internal World

Question 1

Briñol and Petty (2003)found that the effects of head nodding and shaking on attitudes was due to ______.

A)thought confidence
B)attitude strength
C)source characteristics
D)enhanced accessibility

Answer 1

thought confidence

Question 2

Implicit measures of attitude ______.

A)are thought to be less filtered than explicit measures of attitude
B)predict the same behaviors as explicit measures of attitude
C)both are thought to be less filtered than explicit measures of attitude and predict the same behaviors as explicit measures of attitude
D)neither are thought to be less filtered than explicit measures of attitude nor predict the same behaviors as explicit measures of attitude

Answer 2

are thought to be less filtered than explicit measures of attitude

Question 3

Research on alcohol consumption and attitudes toward drink driving has revealed that ______.

A)drunk participants express stronger attitudes
B)drunk participants express less negative attitudes.but only when the question did not contain a contingent cue
C)drunk participants express less negative attitudes.but only when the question contained a contingent cue
D)drunk participants were less resistant to appeals against the dangers of drink driving

Answer 3

drunk participants express less negative attitudes.but only when the question contained a contingent cue

Question 4

Phelps and colleagues (2000)found that amygdala activity in response to the presentation of Black faces was correlated with ______.

A)scores on an implicit measure of racial prejudice
B)scores on an implicit measure of racial prejudice.but only when the faces were popular and respected figures
C)scores on an implicit measure of racial prejudice.but only when the faces were unfamiliar individuals
D)scores on an explicit measure of racial prejudice

Question 5

Which of the following statements is NOT correct?

A)Behaviors associated with approval or approach (e.g..head shaking.pulling)cause more positive attitudes than actions associated with disapproval or avoidance.
B)Motor actions influence attitudes by acting as cues.influencing deliberation.biasing attitude-relevant elaboration.or affecting thought confidence.
C)The consumption of alcohol and caffeine can influence the favorability of our attitudes and our susceptibility to attitude change.
D)There is a direct link between genes and attitudes.

Question 6

The findings of Lieberman.Ochsner.Gilbert.and Schacter (2005)suggest that ______.

A)explicit memory is required to show behavior-induced attitude change
B)amnesiacs and controls are equally good at recalling the art print they selected at the beginning phase of the study
C)Alzheimer's dementia patients showed no retention of their attitudes over a period of one week
D)explicit memory is not required to show behavior-induced attitude change

Question 7

Research has demonstrated that activation is greater ______.

A)on the right side of the brain for disliked objects and the left side of the brain for liked objects
B)on the right side of the brain for liked objects and the left side of the brain for disliked objects
C)on the right side of the brain for disliked and liked objects
D)on the left side of the brain for disliked and liked objects

Question 8

Research on attitude heritability has suggested that ______.

A)there is no link between genes and attitudes
B)there is a direct link between genes and attitudes
C)only value-expressive attitudes possess a heritable component
D)there is an indirect link between genes and attitudes

Question 9

Strack.Martin.and Stepper (1988)showed that ______.

A)arm flexion and contraction influence attitudes
B)head nodding and shaking influence attitudes
C)facial expressions influence attitudes
D)feeling powerful influence attitudes

Question 10

Self-report measures of attitudes ______.

A)are the same as implicit measures
B)control for social desirability
C)can easily determine underlying attitudes
D)ask people to make an active and deliberate consideration of their attitude

Question 11

The best evidence regarding age and attitude change supports the ______.

A)impressionable years hypothesis
B)life-stages hypothesis
C)increasing persistence hypothesis
D)attitude stability hypothesis

Question 12

______ and ______ are particularly well equipped to study the time course of attitudinal responses.

A)fMRI; PET
B)PET; EEG
C)MEG; fMRI
D)EEG; MEG