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EUP ch14 mod 43text
Essentials of Understanding Psychology 7th ed. questions from text mod 43
Question | Answer |
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What are the factors with which the ease of attitudes can be changed? | Message source, characteristics of the message, characteristics of the target |
Which is not a factor in changing attitudes? Message source, communicator's position, gender differences, obedience | obedience |
Who is an attitude communicator? | a person who delivers a persuasive message |
Example of target characteristics include all of the following except: intelligence, trust, gender, knowledge base | trust |
Generally, people who are highly involve and motivated us which type of processing to comprehend a mesage | central route processing |
Uninvolved, unmotivated people who are bored or distracted and who are less interested in the message will be influenced more by what? | peripheral factors |
Who is more likely to use central route processing....someone who has a high need for cognition (level of thoughts), who enjoys thinking,philosophizing and reflecting or someone who is impatient when forced to spend time thinking | someone who has a high need for cognition (level of thoughts), who enjoys thinking,philosophizing and reflecting |
Smoking can be an example of ___________ because of the statements "I smoke" and "Smoking leads to cancer" are contradictory thoughts held by the smoker | Cognitive Dissonance |
What is impression formation? | the process by which an individual organizes information about another person to form an overall impression of that person |
True or False: Central traits are usually unimportant traits? | False |
True of False: Schemas are susceptilbe ot error | True |
There are at least 4 consistent biases in the ways people make attributions. Name 1 | Halo effect-assumption that if one has particular positive traits to infer other positive traits |
There are at least 4 consistent biases in the ways people make attributions. Name 1 | Assumed-similarity bias-similar to you |
There are at least 4 consistent biases in the ways people make attributions. Name 1 | Self-serving bias-blame failure/success on personal factors |
There are at least 4 consistent biases in the ways people make attributions. Name 1 | fundamental attribution error-over attribute behaviors to dispositional causes and failure to recognize situational causes |
One reason the fundamental attribution error is so common | relates to the way we view the behavior of another person in a particular setting |
What is collectivistic orientation? | a worldview held by Asian societies that promotes the notion of interdependence |