Exam 7: Attitudes, Beliefs and Consistency

With ____, people rationalize their behavior so as to bring their attitudes into line with their actions.

Research on effort justification and cognitive dissonance theory could be most easily used to explain ____.

____ works on the assumption that a person's attitude toward helping others might fare better if his or her behavior is not measured by a single test.

Which of the following is the best example of social learning?

Religious beliefs have no psychological benefit.

In terms of the kinds of predictions that it makes, research on cognitive dissonance theory is most at odds with research on ____.

The Implicit Association Test ("IAT") works by measuring the speed with which people are able to associate different pairs of concepts. According to the logic of the test,

Research suggests that the idea that "familiarity breeds liking" ____.

Research by Shelley Taylor and her colleagues on effective coping among cancer patients has suggested that all of the following are important in promoting recovery EXCEPT ____.

Which of the following is the best example of belief perseverance?

Iris is a vegetarian, but she was forced (at gunpoint) to eat a steak last night. Research suggests that even under these highly unusual circumstances, she will still feel dissonance and try to rationalize her steak-eating to reduce this dissonance.

The so-called "A-B problem" refers to the fact that people's stated attitudes are often inconsistent with their behaviors.

Automatic attitudes can be defined as ____ evaluative responses.

Fritz Heider's balance theory is also sometimes referred to as the ____________________ theory.

When a person intends to perform a behavior, attitude-behavior consistency ____.

As discussed in the text, gamblers use tricks to ____.

In the U.S., which of the following would NOT be considered a stigmatized group?

People often have inconsistent automatic and deliberate attitudes but do not realize it. How is this possible?

Ethan says that he likes rap music, but he never seems to listen to it when he is on his own, and he becomes visibly tense whenever rap is playing at a party. Thus, even though Ethan is outwardly favorable toward rap, it is probably case that he has a negative ____________________ attitude toward it.

Early research on classical conditioning was performed with dogs. In certain variations of this research, experimenters repeatedly presented dogs with meat powder just after ringing a bell. The dogs (who would naturally salivate after being exposed to meat powder) learned to associate the bell with the meat powder, and began to salivate as soon as they heard the bell. In the language of classical conditioning, the meat powder in this research served as a(n) ____________________.