Social Psychology Questions

Which attitude is the true attitude?

When you don’t smoke because smoking can cause lung cancer, your attitude is based on:

What is NOT a consequence of a frequent occurrence of a joint activation of an object and its evaluation?

Which of the following is NOT a heuristic used in superficial processing?

One TV commercial for a deodorant uses a lot of women running in bikinis. This is a technique intended to promote:

The central route of persuasion consists of (in the right order):

According to the study by Petty and colleagues, in which situation will a student be most likely to process systematically?

Which statement is correct? I: People’s reactions to the content of a message can be more important than the content itself. II: Elaboration is always a cognitive process.

What do we mean by the "boomerang effect"?

Which of the following statements is correct? I. If it is important to make the right decision, we will process systematically. II. If we are motivated to connectedness, we will express opinions similar to those of our interaction partners.

When is systematic processing most likely?

Who is the most likely to process a message about the generally accepted view that spending a lot of money is not good for you?

What is true about the influence of positive emotions on the way we process information?

Which message is the most persuasive?

Anne reads an article in the newspaper that supports her opinion about government policies, but isn’t exactly her attitude. Anne concludes that the newspaper totally agrees with her. This is an example of:

What is true about the bias we have to protect our attitudes?

Resisting a persuasive attempt can make our attitude even stronger. This is because:

Subliminal self-help tapes can be successful because:

Why are behaviors and attitudes not always consistent?

What is an important example of another factor that can influence how we behave?

Which theory can be used to explain why someone who is nodding his head will agree with a statement more than someone shaking his head?

What professional field can take advantage of the powers of social influence explained in the self-perception theory?

Imagine you receive an email about how you would feel, hypothetically, about contributing time or money to the local orphanage by going to a website. You do so, and a week later you receive an email asking you to actually go down to the orphanage and work with the children for 2 hours. This would be an example of:

Which of the following factors must be present in order for the foot-in-the-door technique to work?

When are actions most likely to lead people to adopt consistent attitudes?

What is the term used for the experience of uncomfortable tension between important attitudes and actions?

Which of the following steps is necessary for actions to produce dissonance and for that dissonance to produce attitude change?

The idea that the more effort, time, or pain you put into something, the more you value it, and the more you will change your attitude toward it, is explained by which theory?

Post-decisional regret is another term for:

What is an example of a 'wrong' alternative way to reduce cognitive dissonance?

What types of attitudes are more likely to be accessed directly?

Which theory argues that attitudes and social norms are an important part of intentions, which then produce behavior?

Which type of processing is used when attitudes deliberately trigger consistent behaviors?

How do attitudes affect behavior if careful consideration is not possible, or when the choices are not important?

What kinds of attitudes are most likely to be readily accessible?

What type of information do implicit attitudes reflect?

What can be concluded from Sherif's (1936) study on the autokinetic effect?

Which statement best describes the development of a social norm?

In Asch's line judgment task:

The term used for the convergence of individuals’ thoughts, feelings, and behaviors towards a group norm is: