Although you may spend an evening surfing the Internet rather than studying,you have generally been a disciplined student throughout your academic career and have always held the attitude that studying is important.The relationship between your studying behavior and your attitude toward studying can be best described by which social psychological term?

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The principle of aggregation states that attitudes predict behavior more accurately when the attitude is specific to the behavior in question, and when the behavior is aggregated, or averaged, over time and across situations. In this case, the individual's general attitude toward studying (that it is important) is likely to predict their behavior over time, even if they occasionally engage in studying behavior that is inconsistent with this attitude.

Although You May Spend an Evening Surfing the Internet Rather