Question 1

As described in your text,attitudes and behavior can be measured at a global level or at a specific level,When can one expect the highest correlations between attitudes and behavior?

Accepted Answer

when both attitudes and behavior are measured at the same level

Question 2

Kraus (1995)observed that correlations between attitudes and behavior are ______,

Accepted Answer

lower among college students than non-students

Question 3

According to Ajzen and Fishbein (1977),measures of attitude and behavior should correspond in these aspects,

Accepted Answer

target.action.context.and time

Question 4

Eagly,Chen,Chaiken,and Shaw-Barnes (1999)discuss why people show enhanced recall and recognition of information that is consistent with their attitudes when the topic is important to their values,They suggest this is the case because ______,

Accepted Answer

a value-relevant topic elicits a desire to defend the self-concept

Question 5

The congeniality effect is the theoretical tendency to ______,

Accepted Answer

better remember information that supports your attitude

Question 6

A police department is interested in detecting prejudice in new recruits by examining their non-verbal behavior toward ethnic suspects,The department wants to know whether this behavior is actually linked to attitudes,Which measure do you suggest they use?

Accepted Answer

a personalized Race IAT

Question 7

"Attitudes are more likely to bias encoding and interpretation when the attitudes are easy to retrieve from memory," This hypothesis is corroborated by which of the following studies?

Accepted Answer

Houston and Fazio (1989)

Question 8

Vallone,Ross,and Lepper (1985)found that participants with ______,

Accepted Answer

pro-Israeli attitudes perceived neutral media stories as being biased in favour of Palestinians

Question 9

Cooke and Sheeran (2004)found that attitude accessibility and direct experience with an attitude object increase the magnitude of attitude-behavior correlations,This finding,among others,led them to which of the conclusions below?

Accepted Answer

Attitude strength is an important moderator of attitude-behavior relations.

Question 10

The RIM model may help to explain why implicit measures of attitude ______,

Accepted Answer

are better predictors of spontaneous behavior than of deliberate behavior

Question 11

Which of the following statements is a valid criticism of Wicker's (1969)pessimistic conclusions about attitude-behavior relations?

Accepted Answer

Many of the studies he reviewed contained imprecise measures of attitude and behavior .

Question 12

Research on selective attention has found that ______,

Accepted Answer

people pay more attention to information that supports their attitude when the opposing information does not seem highly useful and non-refutable

Question 13

Tim has a strong negative attitude toward nuclear power; Sarah dislikes nuclear power too,but has a much weaker attitude,One day,both get asked to donate to a campaign against nuclear power,According Holland,Verplanken,and Ad van Knippenberg (2002),what should be the effect of this behavior?

Accepted Answer

Tim 's behavior won't change his attitude.while Sarah's attitude will depend on how much she donates.

Question 14

Kraus (1995)found that attitude-behavior correlations are stronger for voting behavior than for blood donations,Which of the following interpretations of this result are best supported by the available evidence?

Accepted Answer

Value-expressive attitudes are strong predictors of relevant action.

Question 15

When could one expect attitudes to lead to biased judgments?

Accepted Answer

when attitudes are extreme

Quiz 3: The Influence of Attitudes on Information Processing and Behavior

As described in your text,attitudes and behavior can be measured at a global level or at a specific level,When can one expect the highest correlations between attitudes and behavior?

Kraus (1995) observed that correlations between attitudes and behavior are ______,

According to Ajzen and Fishbein (1977) ,measures of attitude and behavior should correspond in these aspects,

Eagly,Chen,Chaiken,and Shaw-Barnes (1999) discuss why people show enhanced recall and recognition of information that is consistent with their attitudes when the topic is important to their values,They suggest this is the case because ______,

The congeniality effect is the theoretical tendency to ______,

A police department is interested in detecting prejudice in new recruits by examining their non-verbal behavior toward ethnic suspects,The department wants to know whether this behavior is actually linked to attitudes,Which measure do you suggest they use?

"Attitudes are more likely to bias encoding and interpretation when the attitudes are easy to retrieve from memory," This hypothesis is corroborated by which of the following studies?

Vallone,Ross,and Lepper (1985) found that participants with ______,

Cooke and Sheeran (2004) found that attitude accessibility and direct experience with an attitude object increase the magnitude of attitude-behavior correlations,This finding,among others,led them to which of the conclusions below?

The RIM model may help to explain why implicit measures of attitude ______,

Which of the following statements is a valid criticism of Wicker's (1969) pessimistic conclusions about attitude-behavior relations?

Research on selective attention has found that ______,

Tim has a strong negative attitude toward nuclear power; Sarah dislikes nuclear power too,but has a much weaker attitude,One day,both get asked to donate to a campaign against nuclear power,According Holland,Verplanken,and Ad van Knippenberg (2002) ,what should be the effect of this behavior?

Kraus (1995) found that attitude-behavior correlations are stronger for voting behavior than for blood donations,Which of the following interpretations of this result are best supported by the available evidence?

When could one expect attitudes to lead to biased judgments?