MCQ Bank
Personality, mood, attitudes, abilities, and effort come under which type of attribution?
- A) External
- B) Emotional
- C) Rational
- D) Internal
Covariation model focuses on which of the followings?
- A) Multiple instances
- B) Single instances
- C) Self regulation
- D) Discounting principle
Actor observer bias is concerned with the difference between______________.
- A) Attributions of two different observers
- B) Attributions of two different actors
- C) Attributions of people with different personalities
- D) Attributions of an actor with those of someone observing them
Attitude is positive or negative evaluation of an object, this definition is given by:
- A) Schuman
- B) McGarry
- C) Rosch
- D) Barsalou
How a person tends to act towards the object, is _____________ component of attitude?
- A) Cognitive
- B) Affective
- C) Emotional
- D) Behavioral
The old saying “It looks like a duck, it quakes like a duck, then it is probably a duck” is an example of:
- A) The fundamental error
- B) The availability heuristic
- C) The representativeness heuristic
- D) The anchoring & adjustment heuristic
I did not prepare for the test, however I got an “A” because I am good at math” – this is an example of ____________.
- A) External attribution
- B) Controllable attribution
- C) Internal attribution
- D) Unstable attribution
Persons who regularly engage in physical activity tend to underestimate the actual proportion of other people who exercise in order to underestimate the proportion of others in desirable behavior, is known as what?
- A) False consensus belief
- B) Just world belief
- C) Learned helplessness
- D) False-uniqueness belief
Likert scale was introduced in which of the following year?
- A) 1832
- B) 1999
- C) 1982
- D) 1932
What factor is responsible for the self-serving bias?
- A) All of the given options
- B) Self-enhancing bias
- C) Motivational factors
- D) Cognitive factors
According to Fritz Heider which of following need motivates people?
- A) Physical Need
- B) Psychological Need
- C) Need of coherent view world
- D) Power Need
All of the followings are advantages of schematic processing EXCEPT:
- A) Aid interpretation
- B) Add information
- C) Remove affect
- D) Aid recall
Which of the following refers that people tend to attribute their own behavior to external causes but that of others to internal?
- A) Correspondence bias
- B) Internal bias
- C) Actor-observer bias
- D) Observer bias
Which of the following involves imagining alternative outcomes?
- A) Counterfactual reasoning
- B) Deductive reasoning
- C) Verbal reasoning
- D) Inductive reasoning
Which of the following is the tendency to be biased towards making quantitative judgments?
- A) Representativeness Heuristic
- B) Anchoring
- C) Fundamental error
- D) Anchor based bias
An animal with three body divisions, six legs, an external skeleton, and a rapid reproductive system = INSECT is an example of what?
- A) Attribution
- B) Personal cognition
- C) Social categorization
- D) Categorizing creatures
Who gave the Covariation model of attribution?
- A) Fritz Heider
- B) Weiner
- C) Festinger
- D) Harold Kelly
Schemas are often called _________ when applied to members of a social group.
- A) Social cognition
- B) Mental imagery
- C) Scripts
- D) Stereotypes
“It looks like a bird, it flies like a bird, and it is probably a bird” is termed as:
- A) Internal bias
- B) Observer bias
- C) The Representativeness Heuristic
- D) Actor-observer bias
A child suspended from school because his teacher caught him while doing smoking in playground is an example of __________.
- A) Modelling
- B) Operant conditioning
- C) Classical conditioning
- D) Observational learning