Which of the Following Statements About Attitudes Is Correct

question 64

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about attitudes is correct?

• A) When stating opinions or casting votes, Americans rarely respond in ways that express their underlying attitudes.
• B) It combines feelings, beliefs, thoughts, and predispositions to react in a certain way.
• C) Most individuals hold widely shared attitudes in the United States.
• D) Most people have an elaborate set of informed, organized, and internally consistent attitudes.

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Definitions:

Enduring Information

Knowledge or data that remains applicable and useful over a long period of time, withstanding changes in context or circumstances.

Learning

The process of acquiring knowledge, skills, values, or behaviors through study, experience, or teaching.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired: a response that is at first elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.

Operant Behavior

Behavior that operates on the environment, producing a consequence.