Attitudes, Emotions and Behaviour Chapter 4 MCQ

Question 1

Attitudes

Answer 1

Peoples evaluations of aspects of the social world

Question 2

Attitude object

Answer 2

The thing an attitude is about

Question 3

Ambivalent attitudes

Answer 3

Attitudes that are mixes, being both positive and negative

Question 4

Values

Answer 4

Enduring beliefs about important aspects of life that go beyond specific situations

Question 5

Ideologies

Answer 5

Interrelated and widely shared sets of beliefs that typically relate to social or political contexts

Question 6

Tripartite model of attitudes

Answer 6

A model of the structure of attitudes which assumed that attitudes have three components; cognitive, affective (emotional) and behavioural

Question 7

Attitude complexity

Answer 7

The number of dimensions along which an attitude object is evaluated

Question 8

Attitude function

Answer 8

The study of why people have attitudes

Question 9

Schema

Answer 9

A cognitive structure that represents information about a concept, its attributes and its relationship to other concepts

Question 10

Mere exposure effect

Answer 10

The more exposure we have to a stimulus, the more we tend to like it

Question 11

Social learning

Answer 11

People acquire their attitudes (as well as behaviours) often from others

Question 12

Classical conditioning

Answer 12

Simple form of learning where a stimulus eventually evokes positive or negative reactions through repeated pairing with another stimulus

Question 13

Subliminal conditioning

Answer 13

Classical conditioning that occurs outside the learners conscious awareness

Question 14

Instrumental conditioning

Answer 14

A form of learnng whereby a behaviour followed by a positive response is more likely to be repeated

Question 15

Observational learning

Answer 15

Individuals attitudes (and behaviours) are influences by observing others

Question 16

Social representations theory

Answer 16

Theory that beliefs about the social world are formed through processes of social interaction

Question 17

Attitude scale

Answer 17

A series of questions designed to gauge a persons attitudes on a topic

Question 18

Implicit Association Test (IAT)

Answer 18

Reaction time test that measures the strengths of automatic associations between mental representations of objects (concepts) in memory

Question 19

Associative-propositional evaluation (APE) model

Answer 19

Model asserting that implicit and explicity attitudes are the behvioural outcomes of separate mental processes

Question 20

Theory of planned behavour

Answer 20

Theory concerning how attitudes predict behaviour. It argues that several factors including subjective norms, attitudes towards the behaviour and percieved behavioural control, determine behavioural intentions concerning the behaviour, and in turn, intentions stronly determine whether the behaviour is performed

Question 21

Theory of resoned action

Answer 21

Predecesor to the theory of planned behavour. It did not take percieved behavioural control into account as a predictor of intentions

Question 22

Cognitive dissonance

Answer 22

An unpleasent psychological state that occurs when people notice that their attitudes and behaviours (or their attitudes) are inconsistent with each other

Question 23

Self-affirmation

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Restoring positive self-views when faced with cognitive dissonance

Question 24

Hypocrisy

Answer 24

Publically supporting an attitude or behavour and yet behaving in a manner that is inconsistent with the attitude or behaviour

Question 25

Embodiment (embodied social cognition)

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An area of study where research shows broadly that bodily states influence attitudes, social perception and emotion

Question 26

Proprioception

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The perception of the body’s position and movement

Question 27

Emotions

Answer 27

Brief, specific psychological and physical responses to an object or event

Question 28

Feelings-as-information perspective

Answer 28

Theory proposing that people often rely ontheir feelings - often gut instincts - to guide important social judgements