Psychology - Attitudes, Attributions And Social Cognition
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Question 1 of 20
1. Question
Which of these four statements about self-report measures of attitude are correct?
1.Self-report measures can be affected by people’s desire to state socially desirable attitudes.
2.Contemporary research uses self-report methods when there is a question over people’s ability to rate their attitudes accurately
3.Self-report measures have predicted a variety of relevant behaviours in past research
4.Measures that have been designed to elicit attitude3s without relying on self-reports still rely on overt behaviours towards the attitude object.Correct
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Question 2 of 20
2. Question
The three-component model of attitude formation includes:
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Question 3 of 20
3. Question
Which of the following definition of important terms within the behavioural component of attitude structure is INCORRECT?
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Question 4 of 20
4. Question
Research by Fishbein and Ajzen has indicated that in order to demonstrate strong links between attitudes and behaviours, an assessment of several behaviours relevent to the attitude being measured is necessary.This type of assessment is referred to as the:
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Question 5 of 20
5. Question
According to Ajzen’s (1975) theory of planned behaviour, behavioural intentions are influenced by:
1.The objective norms regarding the behaviour.
2.The attitude towards the behaviour.
3.Perceived control over performance of the behaviour.
4.All of the aboveCorrect
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Question 6 of 20
6. Question
Research by Festinger and colleagues demonstrated that when people were paid $1 for their participation in a dull task, they were more favourably to the dull task compared to people whowere paid $20. Which theory was put forth to explain why people alter their true attitudes to match their past or actual behaviour?
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Question 7 of 20
7. Question
According to the theory of planned behaviour, what factors influence people’s intentions to act in specific ways?
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Question 8 of 20
8. Question
According to McGuire’s(1969) information-processing approach to persuasion, a message will elicit the desired behaviour only if it succeeded at six stages. But which of the options below is NOT one of these stages?
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Question 9 of 20
9. Question
According to Kelley’s covariation model of attribution, if Sylvia always laughs at comedians, then her behaviour would be described as having:
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Question 10 of 20
10. Question
Although the jones-Davis (19610) and Kelley (1967) models of attribution view the social perceiver as a rational person empirical research has discovered present biases in the attributional processes. Which of these is NOT one of those presistent biases?
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Question 11 of 20
11. Question
Identify the CORRECT statement with regard to the self-serving bias:
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Question 12 of 20
12. Question
How is the ultimate attribution error(UAE) different from the other pervasive attributional biases such as the fundamental attribution error, the self-serving bias and the actor-observer effect?
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Question 13 of 20
13. Question
Which of these statements is CORRECT?
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Question 14 of 20
14. Question
We know that before we can apply a scheme to a social object, we have to categorize it. But which of the below statements about categorization is NOT the case?
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Question 15 of 20
15. Question
Societally recognized mental representations of social groups and their members that include behavioural and trait charecteristics groups are referred to as_______.
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Question 16 of 20
16. Question
Devine’s work on the activation of stereotypes demonstrated that______processing of information about people is beyond conscious awareness whereas_______processing of information about people is deliberate and conscious.
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Question 17 of 20
17. Question
What are the specific qualities of schemas that make them useful for organizing our experiences and information in the social world?
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Question 18 of 20
18. Question
Once development and strengthened through use schemas become integrated structures. Which of the following statements relating to the relationship between schemas and new information is also accurate?
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Question 19 of 20
19. Question
Which type of these are NOT features of stereotypes?
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Question 20 of 20
20. Question
According to research by Petty, Cacioppo and colleagues, people will process messages most carefully, and rely less on simple cues, when what is true about the message?
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