18 Questions
What does the Principle of Aggregation state?
Attitudes become more apparent when looking at aggregate behavior
What are some factors that influence people's attendance at worship services?
Weather, worship leader, and personal feelings
What determines one's intentions and guides behavior according to the Theory of Planned Behavior?
Attitudes, social norms, and feelings of control
Which factor predicts jogging behavior better than general attitudes according to the text?
Specific attitudes towards jogging
What do researchers show even though they consider themselves unprejudiced?
Implicit biases against certain social groups
In everyday interactions, people often respond based on __________ without reflecting.
Automatic scripts
What is the purpose of the Implicit Association Test (IAT)?
To evaluate automatic associations between attitude objects and evaluative words
In the context of attitudes predicting behavior, when are our attitudes most likely to predict our behavior?
When other influences are minimal, the attitude is specific to the behavior, and the attitude is potent
What does the Implicit Association Test (IAT) measure based on participants' reaction times?
Automatic associations between attitude objects and evaluative words
How are easier pairings and faster responses interpreted in the Implicit Association Test (IAT)?
As indicating stronger unconscious associations
What percentage of people demonstrate more implicit dislike for the elderly compared with the young?
80%
In what conditions do attitudes predict behavior according to the text?
When other influences on behavior are minimal, the attitude is specific to the behavior, and the attitude is potent
What term is used to describe the tendency to seek information that agrees with one's views and avoid dissonant information?
Selective Exposure
Which theory pertains mostly to discrepancies between behavior and attitudes?
Dissonance theory
In the context of self-presentation theory, why might individuals express attitudes that match their actions?
To appear consistent
Which phenomenon is described as the reduction of dissonance by internally justifying one's behavior when external justification is 'insufficient'?
Insufficient Justification
What is the term that describes the phenomenon where attitudes follow behavior, sometimes to the point of moral numbness?
Actions and attitudes feed each other
What do individuals sometimes come to believe as a result of tailoring their words to what they think others want to hear?
'Saying becomes believing'
Test your knowledge on the relationship between attitudes and behavior, the impact of behavior on attitudes, role-playing, self-presentation, self-justification, self-perception, and comparing theories in psychology.
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