MCQ Bank
What is internalization in the context of conformity?
- A) Adopting the group's viewpoint to reduce discomfort.
- B) Maintaining personal opinions despite social pressures.
- C) Identifying with the group's point of view and believing in it.
- D) Going along with the group without believing in their viewpoint.
In the context of stress, what is the main purpose of secondary appraisal?
- A) Weighing costs and benefits
- B) Evaluating past experiences
- C) Selecting coping behaviors
- D) Assessing potential threats
How do chronic stressors differ from cataclysmic events in terms of their impact?
- A) Cataclysmic events are more controllable than chronic stressors.
- B) Cataclysmic events have longer durations.
- C) Chronic stressors affect a larger number of people.
- D) Chronic stressors have lower intensity but longer duration.
What influences an individual's tendency to conform?
- A) Only external environmental factors.
- B) Cultural norms exclusively.
- C) Only personal free will.
- D) Both internal dispositions and situational factors.
Which of the following is considered a qualitative measurement of stress?
- A) Controllability
- B) Emotions and coping strategies
- C) Intensity
- D) Duration
What plays a crucial role in shaping an individual's response to stressful situations?
- A) Gut feeling
- B) Genetic predispositions
- C) Primary appraisal
- D) Social factors
What does attribution theory primarily seek to understand?
- A) The impact of social media on social interactions
- B) The role of genetics in behavior.
- C) How people perceive and judge others' behaviors.
- D) The influence of culture on personality.
What is the primary reason for conformity?
- A) A desire to align with prevailing standards.
- B) Inherent human disposition towards conformity.
- C) Social pressures enforcing obedience.
- D) Lack of individual autonomy.
What is the Assumed Similarity bias primarily based on?
- A) Understanding others objectively.
- B) Understanding others through cultural norms.
- C) Understanding others through our own experiences.
- D) Understanding others through their experiences.
How does the lack of control over environmental stressors affect the stress response?
- A) It mitigates the stress response.
- B) It causes stressors to become acute.
- C) It has no impact on the stress response.
- D) It exacerbates the stress response.
Which factors contribute to an individual's resilience in dealing with stress?
- A) Personality traits, social support networks, and genetic predispositions
- B) Personal beliefs, economic status, and environmental factors
- C) Physical fitness, dietary habits, and lifestyle choices
- D) Occupational status, academic achievements, and cultural background
What do customs primarily consist of?
- A) Religious beliefs.
- B) Everyday routine behavior.
- C) Social norms.
- D) Cultural values.
What is the significance of attitudes toward the source of stress?
- A) They increase the intensity of stressors.
- B) They directly cause stress.
- C) They act as filtering devices in perception of the stressor
- D) They have no impact on stress response.
Which of the following model suggests that personal dispositions and social conditions make independent causal contributions to the occurrence of pathology?
- A) Model D: Additive Burden Hypothesis
- B) Model A: Victimization Hypothesis
- C) Model F: Event Proneness Hypothesis
- D) Model B: Stress and Strain Hypothesis
How do Evans and Cohen categorize stress dimensions?
- A) Duration, intensity and number of people affected
- B) Controllability, predictability and duration
- C) Intensity, duration and rate
- D) Magnitude of required response, number of people affected and controllability
What does the concept of consistency in behavior over time suggest in attribution theory?
- A) Behavior is influenced by cultural norms.
- B) Behavior is situation-dependent.
- C) Internal factors play a significant role in behavior.
- D) External factors play a significant role in behavior.
Which factor moderates the impact of stressors by acting as filtering devices in perception?
- A) Social support
- B) Physical fitness
- C) Control
- D) Attitude toward the source of stress
Which component of culture refers to accumulated feelings and priorities individuals have about things and ideas?
- A) Behaviours.
- B) Customs.
- C) Values.
- D) Belief.
Which issue related to density aimed to address as per Recent research by Galle, Gove, and McPherson (1972)?
- A) The relationship between density and mental health conditions
- B) Correlations between population growth and environmental degradation
- C) The impact of density on crime rates in urban areas
- D) Confounding variables related to social structure in studying density
Which city in Pakistan has the highest urban population concentration in Sindh?
- A) Multan
- B) Karachi
- C) Lahore
- D) Faisalabad