Top 150+ Solved Social Psychology 1 MCQ Questions Answer
Q. The Prisoners' Dilemma is an example of:
a. free riding
b. a social dilemma
c. a solution to a social dilemma
d. the opposite of a social dilemma
Q. What has, according to an eminent social psychologist, been‘treated like a rude bastard relative at a family gathering’?
a. downward comparison
b. impression management
c. civility
d. stereotyping
Q. Why is it generally felt that members of some societies mightdevelop a stronger preference for dispositional explanations?
a. many western societies are characterized by a culture of individualism, and this makes people lean more towards understanding the actor than the situation
b. many western societies are characterized by a culture of collectivism, and this makes people lean more towards understanding the situation than the actor
c. many non-western societies are characterized by a culture of individualism, and this makes people lean more towards understanding the actor than the situation
d. many non-western societies are characterized by a culture of collectivism, and this makes people lean more towards understanding the situation than the actor
Q. In Heider’s (1948) balance theory, which of the following wouldrepresent an unbalanced triad?
a. agreeing with someone you like
b. agreeing with someone you dislike
c. disagreeing with someone you dislike
d. agreeing with a friend of a friend
Q. Completing a task which requires self-control may make it:
a. easier to self-regulate on a following task
b. harder to self-regulate on a following task
c. impossible to self-regulate on a following task
d. neither easier nor harder to self-regulate on a following task
Q. You decide to train for a marathon, and for a month you force yourself to get up at 6am every day to go running. At the end ofthe month, you notice that you have also been more successful recently at resisting the temptation to eat junk food. How would the strength model explain this:
a. succeeding at a goal has increased your self-efficacy
b. practicing self-control has increased your self-control resources
c. forming a goal has increased your motivation to overcome obstacles
d. similar goals facilitate each other
Q. Which of the following would suggest that a person has lowimplicit self-esteem?
a. they associate positive words more quickly than negative words with the self
b. they associate negative words more quickly with the self than with others
c. they show a greater than average liking for letters that are in their name
d. they show a cautious style of self-presentation
Q. Which of these statements about conformity is correct?
a. the more members of the majority there are, the more dramatically conformity increases
b. genuine social support has a stronger influence over conformity than does broken unanimity
c. group size has a greater impact on conformity than any other moderator of group influence
d. people in western cultures find greater acceptance of others\ judgements than those in eastern cultures
Q. According to Moscovici (1976, 1980), what process ofinfluence do minorities induce?
a. validation
b. conversion
c. compliance
d. comparison
Q. Below are three strongly-held views over which source condition (minority or majority) elicits the highest cognitive scrutiny of a message. But which one have studies shown to becorrect?
a. "superior message processing is associated with a minority."
b. "superior message processing is associated with a majority."
c. "both a majority and minority can lead to superior message processing under different conditions."
d. none of these
Q. In Gottman and Levenson’s study of married couples’ socialinteractions, what was the strongest predictor of divorce?
a. criticism
b. contempt
c. anger
d. infidelity
Q. Self-categorisation theory suggests that social categorysalience is a function of:
a. fit x perceiver readiness
b. perceiver readiness x accessibility
c. identification x normative fit
d. identification x comparative fit
Q. A cognitive miser is a person who:
a. hoards good ideas that should be shared with others
b. gives little time to thinking about personal matters
c. is good at disguising thoughts from other people
d. uses little effort in making judgments about other people