Top 150+ Solved Social Psychology 2 MCQ Questions Answer
Q. __________ refers to concrete example of behavior others have performed that are consistentwith a given traits
a. Abstractions.
b. Exemplars.
c. Impression.
d. Implication.
Q. According to Kelley __________ is the extent to which the person behaves like this every timethe situation occurs
a. Consistency.
b. Distinctiveness.
c. Consensus.
d. Validity.
Q. Which is true of social stereotypes?
a. They are always negative.
b. They tend to be rational.
c. Likable members of a rejected group are perceived as an “exception.”
d. University students show more evidence of ethnic stereotyping now than they did in the past.
Q. Social psychologists and personality psychologists differ in that
a. Social psychologists use scientific experimentation while personality psychologists do not.
b. Social psychologists believe that individual differences do not contribute to behavior.
c. Social psychologists focus on the power of the situation to shape behavior.
d. Personality psychologists believe that the situation does not influence behavior.
Q. The idea that we will protect our self-esteem by attempting to justify past behavior leads to theprediction that
a. We will attempt to gather accurate information about our social world.
b. Expectations about the behavior of others can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy.
c. We will appreciate things that were easy to achieve over things that were difficult.
d. Choosing to go through an unpleasant experience will lead us to value the outcomes of that experience.
Q. People would be less likely to help a man who fainted in a busy shopping mall, but more likelyto help a man who fainted small convenience store. This behavior explains
a. Bystander effect.
b. Cognitive dissonance theory.
c. Reciprocity norm.
d. Social comparison
Q. Jones and Davis suggest that we arrive at a correspondent inference by processing three kinds ofinformation. Which of the following is not one of the three they suggest
a. Multiple instances.
b. Social desirability.
c. Choice.
d. Non-common effects.
Q. The advantages of the co-variation model compared to correspondent inference theory are that it can account for __________ instances of behavior and that it can explain __________ attributions aswell. The appropriate blanks are
a. Single, internal.
b. Single, external.
c. Multiple, internal.
d. Multiple, external.
Q. The fundamental attribution error is thought to occur due to
a. Familiarity.
b. Perceptual salience.
c. Conformity.
d. Diffusion of responsibility.
Q. The actor observer-bias states that we are more likely to make __________ attributions or ourown behavior and __________ attributions for someone else’s behavior. The appropriate blanks are
a. Internal, internal.
b. Internal, external.
c. External, internal.
d. External, external.
Q. According to the self-serving attribution bias, when you have just failed a test you are mostlikely to make what kind of attribution?
a. Internal.
b. External.
c. Either internal or external are equality likely.
d. Not make any attribution.
Q. There is a perspective in social cognition that suggest that perceives are reluctant to expendcognitive resources and look for any opportunity to avoid doing so. This perspective is known as
a. The cognitive miser perspective.
b. The motivated tactician perspective.
c. The native scientist perspective.
d. None of the above.
Q. They are time-saving mental shortcuts that reduce complex judgements to simple rules of thumb. They are quick and easy, but can result in biased information processing. They are known as
a. Biases.
b. Heuristics.
c. Errors.
d. None of the above.
Q. The tendency to judge the frequency or probability of an event in terms of how easy it is tothink of examples of that event is known as
a. The availability heuristic.
b. The representativeness heuristic.
c. The false-consensus effect.
d. The actor-observer bias.
Q. The tendency to exaggerate how common one’s own opinions are in the general population isknown as
a. The availability heuristic.
b. The representativeness heuristic.
c. The false-consensus effect.
d. The actor-observer bias.