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renzo156

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on: Jun 22, 2018
What are reference groups and how can they influence attitude formation?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

After watching wrestling on TV for an hour, 5-year-old Samuel went outside to play. When 5-year-old Jamie, who lives next door, came outside, Samuel shoved him and tried to get him in a headlock. This situation can best be explained by ________.
 
  a) excitation transfer theory
  b) instrumental aggression
  c) the social learning perspective
  d) classical conditioning


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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Reference groups are other entitiesindividual people, communities, organizations, and so forththat a person identifies with. People often adjust their attitudes so as to hold views closer to the reference groups they value and identify with. As a result of observing the attitudes held by others who we identify with, new attitudes can be formed.

Answer to Question 2

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