Exam 7: Attitudes, Beliefs and Consistency

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 ____.

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

The term ____ is used to refer to the idea that people live and function in the social universe based on certain beliefs about reality.

Research has shown children can identify good and bad categories, and especially the "bad", very early in life. This highlights which psychological principle?

One technique that advertisers often use to influence consumers is celebrity endorsement. The logic works like this: If people like Catherine Zeta-Jones and repeatedly see T-Mobile products together with Catherine Zeta-Jones, then people will learn to associate T-Mobile with her and will in turn like T-Mobile more. That is, celebrity endorsement is expected to lead to ____.

Research on post-trauma coping indicates that one of the worst possible things-in terms of predicting post-trauma recovery-is for people to ____.

Suppose that Sam disliked reggaeton the very first time he heard it. How should we expect his attitude to change (if at all) if he hears it several more times?

Research suggests that the mere exposure effect ____.

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

Research on effort justification and cognitive dissonance theory might suggest that we will be more attracted to potential dating partners who ____ than potential dating partners who ____.

Social psychologists use the term ________________ attitudes to refer to the fact that people have two types of attitudes-automatic attitudes and deliberate attitudes-that are not always consistent with one another.

Social learning is also sometimes referred to as observational learning or ____.

Research on the spread of attitudes on Facebook indicates that a(n) ____ fits the pattern.

Social psychologists use the term ____ to refer to the fact that research reveals only a weak relationship between people's stated attitudes and actual behaviors.

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

Classical conditioning can be thought of as a type of ____.

Suppose that you show your uncle an abstract painting that you have made, and ask for his immediate, unedited reaction. Your uncle says he has no opinion about it. "I am not familiar with abstract art," he tells you, "therefore I don't know how to evaluate it; and I have no intuitive feeling about it." Could this be possible?

Zelda says that she likes dogs and that she is not afraid of them. But she gets visibly tense whenever a dog approaches, and refuses to visit any of her dog-owning friends at their homes. It appears that even though she says she likes dogs, Zelda has a negative ____ attitude toward them.

Paul is trying to train his puppy, Cupcake. He yells "Bad dog!" whenever Cupcake fails to do what he wants. Paul seems to be using ____.

The need to feel that one is thinking and behaving in consistent ways is ____.