Attitudes Revision

Explicit attitudes are when people openly state their attitude and behave in a way that reflects this. Implicit attitudes are ________, uncontrollable and sometimes unconscious.

What are attributions?

• Perceptions of someone's temperament
• Inferences about the cause of events or behaviors
• Explanations for behaviors observed in others
• The process of inferring the causes of events or behaviors

Which type of attitude is involuntary, uncontrollable, and sometimes unconscious?

• Implicit attitude
• Neutral attitude
• Positive attitude
• Explicit attitude

How does the actor-observer bias influence attributions?

The three processes of social identity are social categorization, social identification, and ________.

What are the three components of an attitude?

• Intensity, behavior, and cognition
• Affective, behavior, and cognition
• Direction, intensity, and behavior
• Direction, affective, and cognition

What is an example of the fundamental attribution error?

• Attributing someone's behavior to their personality traits
• Attributing someone's success to their hard work
• Attributing someone's failure to bad luck
• Attributing someone's behavior to the situation they are in

What is the actor-observer bias?

• The tendency to attribute one's own behavior to situational factors
• The tendency to attribute others' behavior to situational factors
• The tendency to attribute one's own behavior to dispositional factors
• The tendency to attribute others' behavior to dispositional factors

What is the difference between explicit and implicit attitudes?

What is the role of attributions in understanding social experiences?

• To form social identities
• To minimize cognitive dissonance
• To discriminate against out-groups
• To explain the cause of events or behaviors