Topic 5-Attitude and Attitude Change

Which is NOT one of the 3 components that support all attitudes?

• Affective

• Behavioural

• Biological

• Cognitive

A popular theory to explain how we acquire attitudes by being rewarded and punished for them...

• Operant Conditioning

• Osmosis

• Genetic inheritance

• Bribery

"Positive or negative evaluations about people, objects or issues"

• The definition for attitudes

• The definition for discrimination

Who is more likely recycle their containers?

• Julie- has a general attitude about 'being green

• Max- does not care about the environment

• Stacey- believes recycling is the best 'green' behaviour

• Tony- has energy saving lights in his home

Appearing moral without the cost of being so...

• Moral hypocrisy

• Moral hysteria

The Implicit Association Test measures implicit attitudes by testing participants' ________

• Brain waves

• Blood type

• Reaction time

• Cognitive skills

Festinger's experiment proved that we are motivated to 'convince' ourselves to reduce ______

• Disconnection

• Dissonance

• Deviance

• Destruction

Who showed, in a famous experiment, that the roles we play can shape our attitudes?

• Freud

• Maslow

• Zimbardo

• Asch

ANY CORRECT- Have you ever changed your attitudes? How?

• Life experiences

• I learned more about the topic

• Someone convinced me

• I have come to accept it over time