SPsych Quiz 5
Features of a strong attitude
-Extremity -Importance -Certainty -Centrality Accessibility
Criticisms to the theory of planned behavior
-Little room for emotions is decision making -Implies a unidirectional relationship between attitudes and behavior
What type of study would support the concept of post-decision dissonance?
A study showing that people express more confidence in a risky bet right after making it than they do right before making it
When researchers use a Likert scale to assess participants attitues, they.......
Ask participants to use numbers to indicate the extent to which they agree with a particular statement
What are the components of attitudes?
Behavior, affect, and cognition
Gloria has a negative attitude toward smoking, but she continues to smoke two packs of cigarettes a day. According to the theory of planned behavior, one reason that her attitude and behavior are inconsistent could be that
Her attitudes are usually accessible when she reached for a cigarette
Self-perception processes are most likely to occur when prior attitudes are.......
Highly central to the self-concept
Researchers should make use of...........when assessing attitudes on socially-sensitive topics
Implicit measures
In the theory of planned behavior, the proposed relationships between attitudes, intentions, and behavior is an example of what type of effect?
Mediation (indirect effect)
When people are given the opportunity to engage in..........they are..........likely to experience cognitive dissonance
Self Affirmation; less
You want to say something to the person next to you in class, but you decide not to because you think other students and the proffesor will disaprove. Instead, you do not say anything. This pattern of subjective norms determining behavior would be the best predicted by what theory.....
The theory of planned behavior
Tariq works long hours for very low pay. If he freely chooses to do this work, and there is insufficient justification for the inconsistancy between the behavior and his attitueds, cognitive dissonance theory would predict that Traqi........
Will have improved attitudes about his job to remove the dissonance
If you act in a way that is inconsistant with your attitiudes, and you have sufficient justification for the inconsistancy, what would cognitive dissonance predict about your attitude?
Your attitudes will not change at all
According to effort justification
experiencing hazing should increase one's allegiance to a fraternity