The Psychology of Attitudes and Attitude Change 3rd Edition Maio Test Bank
Test Bank for The Psychology of Attitudes and Attitude Change 3rd Edition By Gregory R. Maio, Bas Verplanken, Geoffrey Haddock, ISBN: 9781526454140, ISBN: 9781526425843, ISBN: 9781526425836
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART I: Why Do Attitudes Matter?
Chapter 1: What are Attitudes and How are They Measured?
Chapter 2: The Three Witches of Attitude
PART II: What Do Attitudes Do?
Chapter 3: The Influence of Attitudes on Information Processing and Behavior
Chapter 4: How Do Attitudes Influence Behavior?
PART III: What Shapes Attitudes?
Chapter 5: Cognitive Influences on Attitudes
Chapter 6: Affective Influences on Attitudes
Chapter 7: Behavioral Influences on Attitudes
Chapter 8: Basic Principles in How Attitudes are Shaped
PART IV: What More is There to Learn?
Chapter 9: The Internal World
Chapter 10: The External World
Chapter 11: An Eye to the Future
Instructor Exam Multiple Choice Questions
Chapter 1: What are attitudes and how are they measured?
Correct answers are in bold.
1. Who proposed that attitudes are mental associations between an attitude object and evaluations of the object?
a. Alice Eagly
b. Richard Petty
c. Shelley Chaiken
d. Russell Fazio
2. In the 1960s, attitude research was stimulated by the rise of which perspective in social psychology?
a. gestaltism
b. social cognition
c. social attribution
d. interactionism
3. In theory, how does Evaluative Priming work as a measure of attitude?
a. Presentation of an attitude object automatically activates an evaluation of it, making people faster to identify congruent adjectives over incongruent ones.
b. Presentation of the attitude object automatically activates extrapersonal associations with the object, improving attention to relevant words.
c. Presentation of the attitude object across trials improves memory performance for words that share the same connotation.
d. Presentation of the attitude object across trials improves attention to words that share the same connotation.
4. Fazio et al.’s (1995) Evaluative Priming paradigm and Payne’s (2001, 2006) Weapons Bias paradigm share which common feature?
a. the presentation of White or Black faces prior to a response
b. the measurement of attitude
c. the measurement of stereotypes
d. the presentation of White or Black names prior to a response
5. Greenwald et al.’s (1998) “IAT” is an acronym for the _______.
a. Indirect Attitude Test
b. Implicit Association Test
c. Implicit Attitude Test
d. Indirect Association Test
6. Why are explicit measures of attitude useful?
a. They often predict judgments and behavior.
b. They allow for effects of cognitive development.
c. They are uncorrelated with implicit measures.
d. They are correlated with implicit measures.
7. Why are implicit measures of attitude useful?
a. They are affected by context.
b. They can account for variance in behavior that is not explained by explicit measures.
c. They are invulnerable to impression management biases.
d. They are more reliable than explicit measures.
8. Samantha wants to look at attitudes toward pornography using an implicit measure. She believes that people will have negative associations based on the stigma associated with pornography, but may have positive attitudes themselves because of its erotic nature. Which implicit measure should she use to tap these positive attitudes?
a. the IAT
b. the AMP
c. the Single Category IAT
d. the Personalized IAT
