If a researcher wanted to try to assess your automatically a…
If a researcher wanted to try to assess your automatically activated attitudes on a topic (e.g., attitudes toward African Americans, LGBTQ), one way to examine the extent to which you might have negative associations with various groups would be to use:
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Participants in a study were asked to complete a crossword puzzle. Some were made to identify words associated with the elderly (e.g., wise, elderly, grandmother) while others were not. In this study, researchers noticed that the group exposed to the elderly words actually walked slower down the hall when leaving the experiment. What would explain this?
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Chad goes to a new restaurant and proclaims that it has the best food he’s ever tasted. When thinking about Chad you think of his past behaviors to see if the food is indeed really good. According to the covariation theory you could begin by examining
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If you saw someone run naked through a crowded hallway at USI you might wonder why. You may have wondered if someone was being forced (e.g., hazing for a club) or if it was something freely chosen. You might also consider whether this was something that was out of character for the person. You could also assess if the behavior resulted in good things (e.g., compliments) or bad (e.g., being expelled). If you used this logic, what theory would be guiding you?
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