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How do attitudes form?

Question 1 of 17

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What are the ABCs of attitude formation?

Select one of the following:

  • Affect, Behaviour, Cognition

  • Attitude, Behaviour, Cognition

  • Affect, Behaviour, Construction

  • Attitude, Behaviour, Construction

Explanation

Question 2 of 17

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In relation to an attitude object what is "affect"?

Select one of the following:

  • Feelings/emotions influence attitudes

  • The affect the attitude has on others areas

  • The feelings/emotions that derive from the attitudes

  • The feelings other individuals have towards an attitude object

Explanation

Question 3 of 17

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What are behavioural attitude sources? - MORE INFO IN NOTES

Select one of the following:

  • Infer attitudes based on own behaviour

  • Infer attitudes based on other's behaviour

  • Form attitudes based on own behaviour

  • Form attitudes based on other's behaviour

Explanation

Question 4 of 17

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What are cognitive attitude sources?

Select one of the following:

  • Based on rational arguments for and against the attitude object

  • Based on reflections of feelings related to attitude object

  • Attitudes formed based on reliable sources, such as research papers

  • Based on rational arguments presented to the individual for/against the attitude object

Explanation

Question 5 of 17

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Affective attitude source: What is the mere exposure effect?

Select one of the following:

  • The more the exposure toward an attitude object, the more favourable the attitude towards it

  • The more to exposure to an attitude object, the less favourable the attitude towards it

  • The more exposure to an attitude object the more likely the opposite attitude towards it is to form

  • The more exposure to an attitude object the more likely the current attitude towards it is to strengthen

Explanation

Question 6 of 17

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Behavioural attitude source: Outline Bem's self-perception theory

Select one of the following:

  • When unable to directly access an attitude an individual will infer it based on their behaviour

  • When unable to directly access an attitude an individual will infer it based on others' behaviour

  • When unable to directly access an attitude an individual will form a new attitude based on logical reasoning

  • When unable to directly access an attitude an individual will form a new attitude based on their current social situation

Explanation

Question 7 of 17

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Affective attitude source: What did Zajonc (1968) find regarding the mere exposure effect?

Select one of the following:

  • Individuals more likely to say that familiar nonsense words/characters (exposed to earlier in experiment) meant something positive

  • Individuals more likely to say that familiar nonsense words/characters (exposed to earlier in experiment) meant something negative

  • Familiar objects are perceived more fluently

  • Familiar objects are perceived less fluently

Explanation

Question 8 of 17

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Affective attitude source: What two processes did Bornstein & D'Agostino (1992) argue resulted in the mere exposure effect?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Familiar objects perceived more fluently

  • Individuals make incorrect attribution for this perceptual fluency

  • The more people around the individual that "likes" the AO leads to the individual believing they should "like" it too

  • The individual will construct for and against opinions of the AO based on others' reactions to it

Explanation

Question 9 of 17

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What is the Social Learning approach to how attitudes form?

Select one of the following:

  • Individuals acquire attitudes/behaviours from others

  • Individuals are told by others how to behave and what their attitudes should be

  • Individuals construct their own attitudes and bahviours based on information they observe from significant others

  • Individuals act in a similar way to others and adopt others' attitudes in order to gain social acceptance

Explanation

Question 10 of 17

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Social Learning: Outline Classical Conditioning

Select one of the following:

  • A stimulus is associated with AO that elicits pos/neg response, then pos/neg attitude forms to stimulus

  • A behaviour is met by positive or negative reinforcement or punishment, therefore the behaviour is then associated with a pos/neg attitude

  • The behaviour is repeated due to praise from a significant other, pairing a positive attitude to the behaviour

  • The behaviour is stopped due to criticism from a significant other, pairing a negative attitude to the behaviour

Explanation

Question 11 of 17

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Social Learning: What is subliminal conditioning?

Select one of the following:

  • Unconscious classical conditioning

  • Conditioning of a pos/neg attitude towards an AO under hypontism

  • Conditioning of a pos/neg attitude towards an AO in experimental conditions using deception

  • Conditioning of a pos/neg attitude towards an AO whilst the individual is asleep

Explanation

Question 12 of 17

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Social Learning: What is instrumental conditioning?

Select one of the following:

  • Attitudes can be reinforced/diffused via pos/neg reinforcement and punishment

  • Stimulus associated with AO that elicits pos/neg response, then pos/neg attitude forms to stimulus

  • Attitudes/behaviours influenced by observing others

  • Conditioning that occurs unconsciously through observing others

Explanation

Question 13 of 17

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Social Learning: What is observational learning?

Select one of the following:

  • Attitudes/behaviours influenced by observing others

  • Attitudes/behaviours formed due to wanting to "fit into" observed social group

  • Attitudes/behaviours formed through observation due to not wanting to be socially excluded

  • The majority influences the individuals attitude/behaviours

Explanation

Question 14 of 17

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What do innate factors assume about forming attitudes?

Select one of the following:

  • Some important attitude features are inherited

  • Some important attitude features develop naturally despite genetics or the social world

  • Some innate brain features lead to behaviours to occur that lead to attitude formation

  • Forming attitudes is an innate factor that every individual completes in approximately the same way

Explanation

Question 15 of 17

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Innate Factors of Attitude Formation: What have studies with monozygotic (identical) and dizygotic twins shown?

Select one of the following:

  • Attitudes of monozygotic twins are more strongly related even if they are brought up apart

  • Attitudes of monozygotic twins are more strongly related only if they are brought up apart

  • Attitudes of dizygotic twins are more strongly related even if they are brought up apart

  • Attitudes of dizygotic twins are more strongly related only if they are brought up apart

Explanation

Question 16 of 17

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Attitude constancy and balance: Outline Heider's (1958) balance theory
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Select one of the following:

  • Consistent attitudes are in balance and form coherent whole

  • Individuals balance arguments for and against the AO before fully adopting an attitude

  • The attitude an individual has tends to remain constant throughout their life time

  • The individual only adopts new attitudes if they are constant, and in balance with current attitudes

Explanation

Question 17 of 17

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Outline social representations: The social formation of attitudes

Select one of the following:

  • Attitudes are built up by groups via social interaction

  • Individuals adopt attitude based on what others' around them think

  • Individuals use social representations in order to form attitudes

  • Attitudes are formed through observations of the social world

Explanation

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