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Partie II: L’impératif présent (Avoir – nous) ______________________ toujours du respect pour nos adversaires.

Consider the following (edited) excerpt from a James Thurber New Yorker piece: “Suddenly someone began to run. It may be that he had simply remembered … an engagement to meet his wife, for which he was now frightfully late. Whatever it was, he ran east on Broad Street. Somebody else began to run, perhaps a newsboy in high spirits. … Another man broke into a trot. … A loud mumble gradually crystallized into the dread word ‘dam.’ ‘The dam has broke!’ The fear was put into words by a little old lady in an electric car, or by a traffic cop, or by a small boy: Nobody knows who. … Two thousand people were abruptly in full flight.…” This literary excerpt illustrates the phenomenon known as

True or false? Attitudes always are always tied to an object and are inflexible and difficult to change. 

Doty is out weeding her petunias when she sees a garden snake. She feels fear and jumps up and runs back to the house, all the while thinking, “I know that garden snakes are not dangerous.” This example illustrates an inconsistency between the ________ component of attitudes and the ________ components.

The following statements are about the levels of difficulty of different channels in changing attitudes. Which one is INCORRECT?

According to the Extended Parallel Process Model, which statement addresses response efficacy?

Recall that in the l930s, when anti-Asian prejudice was commonplace in the United States, LaPiere (1934) had no trouble finding pleasant accommodations for himself and his Chinese traveling companions. Surprised, LaPiere later sent letters to the establishments they visited, asking whether Chinese visitors would be welcome. More than 90 percent of those who responded replied that they definitely would not accommodate Chinese. This study is noteworthy because it suggested that

Which of the following measures of attitudes is indirect?

Inoculation theory uses _______ messages to stop later persuasion.

According to Social Judgment Theory, _________________ is the difference between the position advocated by a message and the receiver’s most preferred position.