The belief that an act will produce a particular outcome and the personal desirability of the outcome merge to form an attitude (a personal orientation to the act). The belief that other people want you to do the act and the desire to go along with their wishes merge to form a?

Matt's experiment was designed to find out if reading an entire chapter at once led to better test grades than reading a section at a time over several days. The dependent variable in his experimental research was _____

a) the test grade. b) the length of the chapter. c) reading an entire chapter. d) reading a section at a time.

Your little sister is in 7th grade and has a boyfriend. Your parents are not very happy about this and think not only that she is too young to have an intimate relationship, but also that this behavior is very unusual for a 7th grader

What do you tell them? a. This is not unusual, 80% of 7th graders have intimate relationships. b. This is not unusual, 60% of 7th graders have intimate relationships. c. This is unusual, only 44% of 7th graders have intimate relationships. d. This is unusual, only 17% of 7th graders have intimate relationships.