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11. If Professor Jameson is most interested in studying what you believe about an object or topic, then she is focusing on the ________ component of attitudes.

a) behavioral

b) affective

c) cognitive

d) informational

12. Which of the following is the best example of the behavioral component of an attitude?

a) Bea feels recycling is a great concept.

b) Bob is upset when he hears a corporation plans to build a polluting plant near his home.

c) Bill struggles to understand the arguments both sides present in a debate over a new manufacturing plant.

d) Betty writes a letter to her senator asking for support of a law making corporations responsible for the pollution they cause.

13. You want to visit Argentina but your attitude about Argentina is changing as you read the news about the kidnappings that have occurred there. Which component of attitude is being affected?

a) affective

b) cognitive

c) behavioral

d) situational

14. Roberta is trying to decide whether to vote for a political candidate. Based on what she has read about him, she has concluded that he is not qualified for the position, but she agrees with his political positions. Also, she trusts him and likes his decisive personality. In fact, she likes him so much that she sent a small donation to his campaign. Her opinion that the candidate is not qualified represents the ______ component of her attitude toward him.

a) cognitive

b) feeling

c) intuition

d) behavioral

15. Roberta is trying to decide whether to vote for a political candidate. Based on what she has read about him, she has concluded that he is not qualified for the position, but she agrees with his political positions. Also, she trusts him and likes his decisive personality. In fact, she likes him so much that she sent a small donation to his campaign. Her trust of the candidate represents the ______ component of her attitude toward him.

a) affective

b) cognitive

c) behavioral

d) situational

16. Roberta is trying to decide whether or not to vote for a political candidate. Based on what she has read about him, she has concluded that he is not qualified for the position, but she agrees with his political positions. Also, she trusts him and likes his decisive personality. In fact, she likes him so much that she sent a small donation to his campaign. Her sending a donation to the campaign represents the ______ component of her attitude toward him.

a) affective

b) cognitive

c) behavioral

d) situational

17. Your attitudes are most likely to influence specific behaviors when the attitudes are __________.

a) only moderately important

b) relatively stable

c) not relevant to the behavior

d) difficult to  access from memory

18. Which of the following is the correct definition of cognitive dissonance?

a) a state of tension that occurs when a person’s behavior does not correspond to the his or her attitude

b) the tendency for members of a group to avoid taking responsibility for their actions because they assume that others will do so

c) the tendency for members of a close-knit group to think alike for the sake of harmony and to suppress disagreement

d) a belief that a statement is true just because the person has heard it repeated over and over again

19. A state of tension that occurs when a person’s attitudes do not match the person’s actions is called __________.

a) cognitive dissonance

b) the validity effect

c) the fundamental attribution error

d) routinization

20. When there is an inconsistency between an attitude and a behavior or two attitudes, the end result is usually ________.

a) cognitive dissonance

b) attitudinal confusion

c) persuasion

d) the mere exposure effect