LaPierre (1934): The attitude-behavior problem. – In a classic study, LaPierre (1934) drove through the U.S. with a Chinese couple. In this case, clearly, their behavior gave less evidence of racial bias than their expressed attitudes did.
Q. What did LaPiere find in his studies of his travels in the 1930s with a Chinese couple?
LaPiere spent two years traveling the United States by car with a couple of Chinese ethnicity. LaPiere also mailed a survey to a comparison group of hotels and restaurants that had not been visited, and their responses were similar. The study was foundational in establishing the gap between attitudes and behaviors.
Q. What was the purpose of LaPiere’s travels with the Chinese couple?
To investigate the relationship between attitudes and behavior. They were only refused at one of the establishments they visited, and were generally treated very politely.
Q. What was a major lesson from the LaPiere study?
One of the great lessons of social psychology—a lesson you observed when learning about the LaPiere (1934) study—is that humans are often very concerned with the opinions of others or what others will think of them.
Q. What does the ABC of attitudes stand for?
Every attitude has three components that are represented in what is called the ABC model of attitudes: A for affective, B for behavioral, and C for cognitive. Although every attitude has these three components, any particular attitude can be based on one component more than another.
Q. Do Attitudes predict behavior?
The strength with which an attitude is held is often a good predictor of behavior. The stronger the attitude the more likely it should affect behavior. As a consequence, the attitude will have a very strong influence upon a person’s behavior.
Q. What are the major job related attitudes?
Major Job Attitudes
- Job Satisfaction.
- Job Involvement.
- Psychological Empowerment.
- Organizational Commitment.
- Perceived Organizational Support (POS)
- Employee Engagement.
Q. What are major job attitudes Group of answer choices?
What are major job attitudes? a positive feeling about one’s job resulting from an evaluation of its characteristics. the degree to which a person identifies with a job, actively participates in it, and considers performance important to self-worth.
Q. What are two of the most powerful moderators of the attitudes and behavior relationship?
The most powerful moderators of the attitude-behavior relationships are: Importance. Correspondence to behavior. Accessibility.
Q. Why might two employees with the same job develop different attitudes toward it?
The attitudes of two employees in the same job may have different attitudes towards it because of their expectations and levels of satisfaction. The moods are less transitory than attitudes as they depend on the kind of task one is performing at a particular place, in a particular time and with specific people.
Q. Which of the following does cognitive dissonance indicate between two or more attitudes?
incompatibility
