The Psychology of Attitudes and Attitude Change
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Chapter 9: The Internal World
1. Self-report measures of attitudes ______.
- are the same as implicit measures
- control for social desirability
- can easily determine underlying attitudes
- ask people to make an active and deliberate consideration of their attitude
Answer: D
2. Which of the following statements is correct?
- Specific motor actions are deeply tied to different levels of approval or disapproval.
- Facial expressions influence emotion.
- Bodily actions associated with a particular evaluative tendency can influence how we process information.
- all of these
Answer: D
3. In MacDonald, Zanna, and Fong’s (1995) research on alcohol myopia it was concluded that ______.
- intoxication resulted in more negative attitudes about drinking and driving
- alcohol has no impact on an individual’s attitudes and decisions
- campaigns to further reduce the incidence of drunk driving should attempt to target individuals when they are likely to be intoxicated
- all of these
Answer: C
4. In the experiments by Martin, Laing, Martin, and Mitchell (2005), how does caffeine influence attitudinal processes?
- Caffeine reduces the cognitive processing of arguments.
- Participants who had consumed caffeine showed no attitude change.
- Participants in the caffeine group showed less ability to recall the message.
- Participants in the caffeine group’s greater positivity of thoughts about the message accounted for their degree of attitude change.
Answer: D
5. Studying heritability attitudes, Tesser and Crelia (1994) found that ______.
- individuals were found to provide answers more quickly for high than low heritability attitudes
- individuals found agreement feedback more reinforcing when the agreement occurred for highly heritable attitudes than when it occurred for less heritable attitudes
- attitude strength was associated with attitude heritability
- all of these
Answer: D
6. Which of the following is NOT correct?
- Alcohol affects our attitudes.
- Caffeine influences the attention individuals devote to persuasive messages.
- Genes have no direct or indirect effect on attitudes.
- There is an indirect link between genes and attitudes.
Answer: C
7. If a researcher is interested in determining the location and time course of a particular activity in the brain, they are likely to get better results using ______.
- functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) only
- magnetoencephelography (MEG) only
- the complementary strengths offered by fMRI and MEG.
- the complementary strengths offered by electroencephalography and positron emission tomography
Answer: C
8. Neuroscientific research has demonstrated that ______.
- there is no association between the amygdala and affective processing of information
- the amygdala is involved in assessing the emotional significance of stimuli, that is, both positive and negative stimuli that are relevant to a person’s current goal or situation
- the amygdala appears to be relevant to attitude accessibility
- ratings of ambivalence were not significantly correlated with activity in this area of the ventrolateral pre frontal cortex
Answer: B
9. In Lieberman and colleagues’ (2001) research on behavior-induced attitude change, it was concluded that ______ to elicit behavior-induced attitude change.
- explicit memory is necessary
- explicit memory is not required
- implicit memory is required
- amnesic patients were unable
Answer: B
10. Which of the following statements is correct?
- There is a curvilinear relation between age and susceptibility to attitude change, with greater susceptibility among young adults and the elderly.
- There is no plausible explanation for the relation between age and attitude change.
- When people are made to feel that time is short, they show less openness to attitude change than when they feel that time is expansive.
- all of these
Answer: A