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storky111 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Why are highly accessible attitudes more likely to predict spontaneous behaviors than are less accessible attitudes?

a. People are more likely to be thinking of accessible attitudes when they are called on to act.
b. Emotion-based attitudes are both more accessible and more likely to influence behaviors.
c. People with accessible attitudes are more likely to be influenced by arbitrary aspects of the situation.
d. Actually, attitude accessibility does not influence the link between attitudes and behaviors.

Question 2

Research by Rudman and her colleagues (2007) suggests that implicit attitudes are rooted in ________ experiences, whereas explicit attitudes are based in ________ experiences.

a. current; childhood
b. traumatic; normal
c. childhood; present
d. emotional; cognitive