Beh 225 Week 2 Knowledge Check
Social Psychology
Test 2
Put answers on the appropriate red scan tron. Be sure to bubble in your n number in the space marked “ID”. Bring the scan tron to the classroom between 10 and 10:50 Monday, October 03. DO NOT TURN TEST INTO PSYCHOLOGY OFFICE. Late tests are not accepted.
1) A favorable or unfavorable evaluation reaction toward something or someone is what social psychologists call a(n)
A. feeling. B. cognition. C. attitude. D. behavioral tendency.
2) In 1964, Leon Festinger concluded that the evidence to date
E. did not show that attitudes guide behaviors. F. showed that attitudes guide behaviors. G. was irrelevant to the attitude-behavior relation. …show more content…
feel increasingly guilty. n. disparage the victim to justify the behavior. o. act more kindly toward others. p. become more aggressive toward others.
13) Impression management is to _______ as cognitive dissonance is to _______.
q. overjustification; insufficient justification r. Bem; Festinger s. self-monitoring; self-presentation t. self-presentation; self-justification
14) Although you were opposed to the war with Iraq, your attitude changed when you were required to report on the justifications for it at your job as a newspaper journalist. Which theory best explains the change in your attitude?
u. self-presentation theory v. self-consistency theory w. cognitive dissonance theory x. self-perception theory
15) Though she is opposed to capital punishment, Lisa is asked to give a speech in favor of it to round out a class debate. Dissonance theory predicts that her true attitude will undergo the most change if she
A. makes a speech implying capital punishment is really wrong. B. agrees to give the speech but only if she tells both sides. C. agrees to give the speech without special
Test 2
Put answers on the appropriate red scan tron. Be sure to bubble in your n number in the space marked “ID”. Bring the scan tron to the classroom between 10 and 10:50 Monday, October 03. DO NOT TURN TEST INTO PSYCHOLOGY OFFICE. Late tests are not accepted.
1) A favorable or unfavorable evaluation reaction toward something or someone is what social psychologists call a(n)
A. feeling. B. cognition. C. attitude. D. behavioral tendency.
2) In 1964, Leon Festinger concluded that the evidence to date
E. did not show that attitudes guide behaviors. F. showed that attitudes guide behaviors. G. was irrelevant to the attitude-behavior relation. …show more content…
feel increasingly guilty. n. disparage the victim to justify the behavior. o. act more kindly toward others. p. become more aggressive toward others.
13) Impression management is to _______ as cognitive dissonance is to _______.
q. overjustification; insufficient justification r. Bem; Festinger s. self-monitoring; self-presentation t. self-presentation; self-justification
14) Although you were opposed to the war with Iraq, your attitude changed when you were required to report on the justifications for it at your job as a newspaper journalist. Which theory best explains the change in your attitude?
u. self-presentation theory v. self-consistency theory w. cognitive dissonance theory x. self-perception theory
15) Though she is opposed to capital punishment, Lisa is asked to give a speech in favor of it to round out a class debate. Dissonance theory predicts that her true attitude will undergo the most change if she
A. makes a speech implying capital punishment is really wrong. B. agrees to give the speech but only if she tells both sides. C. agrees to give the speech without special