MCQ Bank
Archival study showed ____________ correlation between pessimistic style and health problems.
- A) Unpredictable
- B) Positive
- C) Nil
- D) Negative
At what age self awareness is developed?
- A) 8 months
- B) Infancy
- C) 18 months
- D) At birth
Body postures can be used to determine:
- A) Attitude
- B) Life style
- C) Learning
- D) Conditioning
Which of the following therapy is recommended the most to change self-attribution?
- A) Behavioral therapy
- B) Cognitive therapy
- C) Psychoanalytical therapy
- D) Gestalt therapy
Learning through association is a basic feature of:
- A) Classical conditioning
- B) Subliminal conditioning
- C) Modern conditioning
- D) Operant conditioning
An Athlete wins a game and attribute his win to hard work and practice and when he loses the following week, he will blame the loss on bad calls by the referees. This is known as:
- A) False consensus effect
- B) The actor-observer bias
- C) Fundamental attribution error
- D) Self serving bias
___________ conditioning when a neutral stimulus is paired with a stimulus that naturally evokes an emotional response.
- A) Atypical
- B) Classical
- C) Traditional
- D) Operant
Attitudes are ___________.
- A) Statements of truth
- B) Observable actions
- C) Interpersonal attractions
- D) Statements of approval or disapproval
A student who has been very quiet during the entire term and never talked during class discussions. You concluded that he is a very shy person. This refers to _________.
- A) Fundamental attribution error
- B) Actor-observer bias
- C) Hindsight bias
- D) Self-serving bias
In 1993, vascular theory of emotion was proposed by whom?
- A) Martin
- B) Zajonc
- C) Strack
- D) Stepper
If a salesperson is nice to us, we don’t necessarily assume he or she is intrinsically friendly. This is an example of which of the following principle?
- A) The discounting principle
- B) Internal attribution
- C) The augmentation principle
- D) External attribution
Who conducted experiment to determine how people learn a foreign language?
- A) Zajonc
- B) McGarry
- C) Aarther
- D) Rosch
Which of the following refers to the process that provides greater confidence that we can accurately predict behavior?
- A) Predictability quotient
- B) Predictability Need
- C) Predictability scale
- D) Predictability equilibrium
__________ is the most representative member of a category.
- A) Prototype
- B) Phenotype
- C) Genotype
- D) Datatype
If a student is bullied at school they may learn to associate the school with fear; this is an example of ________.
- A) Operant Conditioning
- B) Imitation
- C) Classical Conditioning
- D) Modelling
The tendency to exaggerate how common one’s own opinions are in the general population is known as the:
- A) False Consensus Effect
- B) Base rate fallacy
- C) The anchoring heuristic
- D) Actor-observer bias
If we want to study that co-education is preferable in our culture or not, we use which of the following scales?
- A) Likert scale
- B) Semantic scale
- C) Latitude scale
- D) Semantic differential scale
Who studies the importance of personal descriptions vs. base-rate information?
- A) Tversky & Kahneman
- B) McGarry & Hampson
- C) Barsalou
- D) Rosch
“I thought you are very shy because you did not respond to my conversation when we first met”, Ali said to his friend Ahmed. This is an example of___________.
- A) Blame-assignment
- B) Retribution
- C) Attribution
- D) Self-serving bias
Which of the following is NOT an advantage of Schematic Processing?
- A) Add Information
- B) Contain Affect
- C) Generalize information
- D) Aid Recall