Which of the Following Assumptions Was NOT Pivotal to the Evolution

question 38

Multiple Choice

Which of the following assumptions was NOT pivotal to the evolution of theories about attitude?

• A) There is a distinction between a belief and an attitude: an attitude always conveys an evaluation, whereas a belief does not.
• B) Attitudes help to account for correlations between different kind of responses across cognitive, affective and behavioural domains.
• C) Social theorists assume that attitudes depend exclusively on learned experience.
• D) Attitudes have a predictive or even a causal relationship to behaviour.
• E) There is a genetic contribution to attitudes.

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