Quiz 5 - Attitudes & Behaviour revision 2017 Flashcards
Complete the following: I don’t sing because I’m happy. …….
I’m happy because I sing.
Knowing what we now know about behaviour and attitudes, LaPiere’s (1934) study of attitudes towards Chinese was:
A good example of the discrepancy between attitudes and behaviours.
In the example provided in the lecture of classical conditioning as an explanation of learning a prejudiced attitude, what are the classical conditioning terms for the natural relationship of a child getting upset when a parent is upset?
The parent getting upset is the unconditioned stimulus (UCS); the child getting upset is the unconditioned response (UCR).
NOT -The parent getting upset is the conditioned stimulus (CS); the child getting upset is the conditioned response (CR).
What is the rationale for reaction time studies of attitude expression?
In these studies, reaction time is a measure of cognitive processing - the longer the reaction time, the more cognitive processing is taking place to modify the attitude.
Which of the below is not a major component of attitude importance.
a.
Value relevance.
b.
Direct experience.
c.
Social identification.
d.
Self interest.
Direct experience.
Zimbardo’s prison experiment was used in the lecture to illustrate:
That new roles and role expectations may feel contrived and acted, but soon become real.
What model or theory says that stored knowledge about how to behave in a situation has an influence on behaviour?
Attitude-to-behaviour-model.
The theory of planned behaviour:
Attempts to predict behaviour change based on the strength of behavioural intentions.
Which statement below is not true about Cognitive Dissonance Theory?
a. We are motivated to reduce dissonance by changing our attitudes or behaviour or by trivialising the inconsistencies.
b. In cognitive dissonance studies, subjects who received a large inducement to lie that an experiment was interesting were more likely to believe that it was interesting.
c. Cognitive Dissonance Theory is an explanation for how behaviours affect attitudes.
d. Dissonace arises from inconsistencies between behaviour and attitudes.
In cognitive dissonance studies, subjects who received a large inducement to lie that an experiment was interesting were more likely to believe that it was interesting.
In the lecture there was a slide on the different ways that smoking (a behaviour) affects attitudes about smoking - which was related to ‘I look like a cool smoker’?
Self-presentation (impression management).
