MCQ Bank
Ali is a nice guy and always have faith that if he is good then everything happens to me or world should be nice. This concept is known as:
- A) Learned helplessness
- B) False image of world
- C) Just world belief
- D) Nice world orientation
What we believe about ourselves often comes true because we expect it to come true.” This is the definition of ________________.
- A) Self-fulfillment prophecy
- B) Self-fulfilling prophecy
- C) Self-inducing prophecy
- D) Self-flattering prophecy
Event schemas are also known as what?
- A) Mental imagery
- B) Image
- C) Mental set
- D) Scripts
Which of the following causes the problem in direct assessment of attitude?
- A) Affective desirability
- B) Behavioral desirability
- C) Cognitive desirability
- D) Social desirability
If your friend has a car accident, he will start avoid driving due to __________, but if you avoid or dislike driving, it will be the result of observational learning.
- A) Imitation
- B) Operant conditioning
- C) Subliminal conditioning
- D) Classical conditioning
Likert Scale is also known as:
- A) Semantic differential scale
- B) Differential scale
- C) Semantic scale
- D) Summated ratings
SSAB is an abbreviation of what?
- A) Self-Serving Attribution Bias
- B) Self- Schema Attribution Bias
- C) Societal Serving Attribution Bias
- D) Self-Scheme AttrIbutional Behavior
Who proposed the social categorization?
- A) Barsalou
- B) Rosch
- C) McGarry
- D) Hampson
Which of the following scale will be used if we want to study the preference of coeducation in our culture?
- A) Latitude scale
- B) Semantic scale
- C) Semantic differential scale
- D) Likert scale
Identify the name of a psychologist who analyze the attribution theory, fought mental illness and went into obscurity.
- A) Gustav Ichheiser
- B) Fritz Heider
- C) Carl Rogers
- D) Fritz Perls
When we attribute our group’s successes to internal factors and other group’s successes to external factors is called as:
- A) Fundamental attribution error
- B) The ultimate attribution error
- C) Attributions of responsibility
- D) Self-Serving Attribution Bias
Which of the following information is NOT considered while assessing co-variation?
- A) Consistency
- B) Consensus
- C) Assertiveness
- D) Distinctiveness
When a person defines his actions in response to an external cause is called as __________.
- A) Attribution
- B) Locus of control
- C) Internal attribution
- D) External attribution
What galvanometer measures?
- A) Heart beat
- B) Temperature
- C) Skin conductance
- D) Blood pressure
The role of a given cause is augmented if an effect occurs in the presence of _________ cause.
- A) Decisive
- B) Excitatory
- C) General
- D) Inhibitory
Which of the following refers to the tendency to underestimate how common one’s own desirable traits and abilities are in the general population?
- A) False-uniqueness belief
- B) Self-fulfilling prophecy
- C) Just world belief
- D) Observer bias
The reason behind why a person avoids driving after an encounter with a car accident is:
- A) Imitation
- B) Operant conditioning
- C) Subliminal conditioning
- D) Classical conditioning
Which of the following expectations DOES NOT shape our social thinking?
- A) Self-fulfilling prophecy
- B) Just world belief
- C) Confirmation bias
- D) Observer bias
Which of the following is the way we analyse, remember, and use information about the social world?
- A) Social categorization
- B) Personal categorization
- C) Social cognition
- D) Personal cognition
Which of the following refers to the tendency to overestimate the impact of dispositional causes and underestimate the impact of situational causes?
- A) Internal bias
- B) Correspondence bias
- C) Negative error
- D) Fundamental attribution error