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