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Define explicit and implicit attitudes.
Describe the ways in which attitudes are formed.
List conditions under which attitudes best predict behaviors. (This is a LONG answer.)
According to the theory of planned behavior, describe the three factors that determine whether persons with the opportunity to engage in careful thought will act consistently with their intentions.
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Describe the Attitude-to-Behavior Process Model.
Discuss Cognitive Dissonance Theory and some of the experimental support for the theory. Describe an alternate theory which can also account for this data. State how the two theories differ.
7. Describe factors which have been found to affect persuasion from the Yale Approach.
Include source, message, and audience factors in your answer.
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Discuss Petty and Cacioppo's Elaboration Likelihood Model of Persuasion (ELM).
Discuss ways to resist persuasion attempts.
10. Differentiate between the concepts of prejudice and discrimination. Give an example of each.
11. Discuss how members of different groups perceive inequality.
12. Describe the Realistic Conflict Theory of prejudice. Know the procedure to the Robbers'
Cave Study. How did competition create animosity between the groups of boys, and how did "superordinate goals" destroy the ill feelings?
13. Describe Social Categorization Theory and how it can account for prejudice.
14. Describe how stereotypes screen information for us, affect our information processing speed, and cause us to deal with information inconsistent with them.
15. Define illusory correlation. Describe how it plays a role in prejudice.
16. State the significance of the perception that out-groups are homogeneous and in-groups are differentiated. Describe the Linville, Fischer, and Salovey (1989) study.
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17. Discuss techniques for countering the effects of prejudice. Be sure to discuss the contact hypothesis in your answer. List the conditions under which direct intergroup contact will help to reduce discrimination and prejudice. Discuss the extended contact hypothesis.
18. List factors which affect attraction. (In other words, to whom are we attracted?)
19. Discuss attachment styles.
20. Discuss loneliness and ways to reduce it.
21. Do you think liking and loving are qualitatively the same or different? What support exists for your position?
22. Discuss Sternberg’s Triangular Model of Love.
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Discuss four indicators that a marriage may not last according to Gottman’s research.
24. Discuss the seven “building blocks” of marriage.
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