Attitude Formation and Behavior Prediction Quiz

Test your knowledge of social psychology with questions on attitude formation, behavior prediction, conformity, and persuasion.

#1

Which of the following is NOT a component of attitude formation?

Cognitive Component
Affective Component
Behavioral Component
Physiological Component
#2

What term describes the tendency for people to prefer consistency among their cognitions?

Cognitive Dissonance
Attitude Polarization
Balance Theory
Cognitive Consistency
#3

Which process involves adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard?

Social Facilitation
Conformity
Obedience
Deindividuation
#4

What term refers to the process of reducing prejudice by engaging in cooperative activities with members of a different group?

Social comparison
Recategorization
Jigsaw technique
Contact hypothesis
#5

What concept refers to the tendency to attribute one's successes to internal factors and one's failures to external factors?

Self-serving bias
Fundamental attribution error
Actor-observer bias
False consensus effect
#6

Which type of attribution involves attributing someone's behavior to their internal disposition rather than to the situation?

Internal attribution
External attribution
Fundamental attribution error
Actor-observer bias
#7

Which theory suggests that people can hold attitudes toward an object not only because of direct experience with it but also because of association with other positive or negative stimuli?

Balance Theory
Elaboration Likelihood Model
Social Cognitive Theory
Classical Conditioning Theory
#8

According to the theory of planned behavior, what is the primary determinant of a person's intention to perform a behavior?

Attitude toward the behavior
Subjective norm
Perceived behavioral control
Self-efficacy
#9

Which theory posits that people infer their attitudes from observing their own behavior?

Cognitive Dissonance Theory
Self-Perception Theory
Attribution Theory
Balance Theory
#10

According to the foot-in-the-door technique, what is the initial small request designed to do?

To gain compliance with a larger request
To induce cognitive dissonance
To trigger reactance
To activate peripheral route processing
#11

What is the term for the phenomenon where people are more likely to comply with a request after they have already complied with a smaller request?

Door-in-the-face technique
Foot-in-the-door technique
That's-not-all technique
Low-ball technique
#12

Which theory suggests that people attribute the cause of their own and others' behavior to internal factors such as traits and abilities or external factors such as situational influences?

Self-perception theory
Social identity theory
Attribution theory
Framing theory
#13

Which term refers to the process of explaining away inconsistencies between attitudes and behaviors by creating a new justification or rationale for one's behavior?

Cognitive dissonance
Attitude polarization
Self-perception
Self-justification
#14

According to the elaboration likelihood model, which route to persuasion involves detailed scrutiny of a persuasive message, considering its merits, and analyzing arguments?

Central route
Peripheral route
Dual route
Elaboration route
#15

In social psychology, what is the term for the tendency to overestimate the intensity and duration of our emotional reactions to future negative events?

Misattribution
Negativity Bias
Impact Bias
Fundamental Attribution Error
#16

According to the self-perception theory, in what situation are people more likely to infer their attitudes from their behavior?

When their attitudes are strong
When their attitudes are weak
When their attitudes are inconsistent
When their attitudes are shared by others

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