SOC PSY 1Z03 - FINAL EXAM REVIEW UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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SOC PSY 1Z03 - FINAL EXAM REVIEW
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Components of Attitudes - CORRECT ANSWER- There are 3 components of attitude in
this sentence: "My human sexuality class is boring"
Cognitions
Evaluations
Behavioural disposition
Evaluations - CORRECT ANSWER- ...
SOC PSY 1Z03 - FINAL EXAM REVIEW
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Components of Attitudes - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔There are 3 components of attitude in
this sentence: "My human sexuality class is boring"
♤Cognitions
♤Evaluations
♤Behavioural disposition
Evaluations - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The evaluative or affective component
"It's really boring" shows their dissatisfaction with the class
Cognitions - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔An attitude is based on a set of cognitions associated
with the attitude object
ie. They may not like this class because of its content and the who it's taught by
Behavioural disposition - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The behavioural tendency towards the
object
"It's boring" implies a tendency to avoid the class
Attitude - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔An attitude is a mental state that exists in a person's
mind
♤They can be explicit or implicit
♤Ie. "I have no doubt that the earth is flat-just take a look at the earth is flat - just take a look
at the horizon"
,Explicit Attitudes - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔attitudes that are at the conscious level, are
deliberately formed and are easy to self-report.
Implicit attitudes - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔are attitudes that are at the unconscious level,
are involuntarily formed and are typically unknown to us.
Implicit Attitudes Test (IAT) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔For social scientists to fully
explore the impact of implicit attitudes on social life, they measure them through the Implicit
Associations Test (IAT), a computerized test that measures individuals' response latencies
when they encounter attitude-consistent and attitude-inconsistent stimuli.
Affect-Based Attitudes - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Has to relate to feelings and emotions,
the "scared" indicates that tis an affective attitude as it relates to your feelings and emotions
Cognition-Based Attitudes - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔A belief or knowledge forms the
attitude
More reason, more logical
ie. Buying a hybrid card i8s not because of its appearance, you buy it because it is functional
and will save you money in the long run
Instrumental Conditioning - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔The process through which an
individual learns a behaviour in response to a stimulus to obtain a reward or avoid a
punishment.
♤Direct experience
♤Positive or negative forms attitude
Classical Conditioning - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔We can acquire attitudes and prejudices
toward objects through classical conditioning, in which a stimulus gradually elicits a response
through repeated association with other stimuli
Observational Learning - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Attitudes from from observing others
, Agents of Socialization
Functions of Attitudes - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔♤Heuristic
Attitudes providing an efficient means of understanding objects once the attitudes are formed
♤Sense of Self and Self-Worth
Tend to adopt attitudes that are in-tune with our identities
♤Provides Self-Protection
We may adopt certain attitudes to protect our self-image or self-worth
Structure of Attitudes - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔♤Cognitive Consistency
Consistency among a person's cognitions (beliefs and attitudes) is widespread.
Ie. If you have liberal political values, you probably favour housing assistance programs for
people living in poverty.
♤Balance Theory
Balance theory assesses the relationships among three cognitive elements and suggests ways
to resolve imbalance.
♤Cognitive Dissonance
the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to
behavioral decisions and attitude change
How Attitudes Affect Behaviour - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔LaPiere (1934); he did a study
on discrimination in America on Chinese immigrants. Over a 2 year span, he took a student
and his wife who were pleasant people and they went to 66 hotels and 184 restaurants to see
if they would receive discrimination. They were only denied service once
♤72 of the restaurants had no discrimination; only the couple went in not LaPiere
♤Later the restaurants were asked to do a questionnaire and 92% of restaurants said they
would not take Chinese people in their restaurant BUT only one did this
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