MCQ Bank
Who among the following studied classical conditioning with reference to attitude?
- A) Aarther & Carolyn
- B) Rosch& Barsalou
- C) Tversky & Kahneman
- D) McGarry & Hampson
______________ means deliberate judgments or decisions about anything and people are consciously aware of those decisions.
- A) Implicit cognition
- B) Heuristic cognition
- C) Explicit cognition
- D) Anchoring cognition
The fundamental attribution error is more common in which of the following cultures?
- A) Uniculture
- B) Collectivist
- C) Individualist
- D) Biculture
When the cause of a behavior is internally located it is called as:
- A) Psychological attribution
- B) Internal attribution
- C) Attribution of mind
- D) Physical attribution
__________gives us greater confidence that we can accurately predict behavior.
- A) Predictability Need
- B) Impression formation need
- C) Attribution Need
- D) Perfection need
Which of the following refers to the tendency to seek information that supports our beliefs while ignoring disconfirming information?
- A) Just world belief
- B) Observer bias
- C) Confirmation bias
- D) Self-fulfilling prophecy
Which of the following is the name of what if thinking?
- A) The Representativeness Thinking
- B) Observer Thinking
- C) Counterfactual Thinking
- D) Actor-observer Thinking
Smiling causes facial muscles to increase the flow of air-cooled blood to the brain that produces:
- A) Unpleasant mood
- B) Neutral mood
- C) Stress
- D) Pleasant mood
Earliest use of the term attitude came from:
- A) Music
- B) Architecture
- C) Painting
- D) Theater
The process by which people use information to make inferences about the causes of behaviour and events is known as:
- A) Person perception
- B) Attitude
- C) Impression
- D) Attribution
Which of the following is considered as the building blocks of cognition?
- A) Judgments
- B) Comparisons
- C) Analysis
- D) Categories
Who among the following overestimate the importance of the situation in explaining their own behaviors?
- A) Member
- B) Actor
- C) Participant
- D) Observer
Fundamental attribution error is common among which of the following people?
- A) Collectivist culture
- B) Eastern culture
- C) Individualistic culture
- D) Nomadic culture
We are especially likely to make dispositional attributions when events are:
- A) Controllable
- B) Uncontrollable
- C) Negative
- D) Positive
A person’s emotions and affect towards the object is known as:
- A) Behavioral component
- B) Thinking component
- C) Cognitive component
- D) Affective component
Categorization of less typical members may be:
- A) Slower
- B) Efficient
- C) Doubtful
- D) Faster
Our self concepts serve as the lens through which we view others is known as:
- A) Confirmation bias
- B) The availability heuristic
- C) Self-fulfilling prophecy
- D) SSAB
According to researches, ___________ people have strong immune system.
- A) Progressive
- B) Pessimistic
- C) Gifted
- D) Optimistic
Fundamental attribution error is the __________.
- A) Positivity bias
- B) Negativity bias
- C) Team bias
- D) Correspondence bias
The tendency to overestimate our ability to have foreseen the outcome before an event has occurred is an known as:
- A) False Consensus Effect
- B) The actor-observer bias
- C) The Self-Serving Attribution Bias
- D) Hindsight bias