MCQ Bank
If Whites and Blacks marry each other, the children will be of brown color; this is an example of what?
- A) Generalization
- B) Combination
- C) Equal social status
- D) Sustained close contact
Which of the following is attitude change via an external message?
- A) Inspiration
- B) Cognitive dissonance
- C) Attitude formation
- D) Persuasion
“Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of introduction” is saying of:
- A) Plato
- B) Newton
- C) Aristotle
- D) Socrates
Sherif et al.’s summer camp (robber’s cave) experiments were conducted in which year?
- A) 1998
- B) 1955
- C) 1997
- D) 1999
Who gave the concept of cognitive dissonance?
- A) Carl Rogers
- B) Galton
- C) Carl Menninger
- D) Leon Festinger
Which of the following function is not served by prejudice?
- A) Bring pleasure
- B) Lowers self-esteem
- C) Protects from anxiety
- D) Social acceptance
Which of the following is an example of evidence based message?
- A) I don’t like using drugs
- B) Not everyone dies with drug use
- C) Don’t use drugs
- D) Last year 1100 students died with drug abuse
Which of the following is NOT a factor effecting -affiliation desires?
- A) Evolutionary heritage
- B) Culture
- C) Individuality
- D) The brain activity
Which of the following can be a good policy to motivate students to work together?
- A) Combine study
- B) Team sports
- C) Group assignment
- D) Assembly
Which of the following factor DOES NOT affect Persuasion?
- A) Authority
- B) Message variables
- C) Source
- D) Audience
Which of the following is not a characteristic of situation and affiliation?
- A) Proximity
- B) Familiarity
- C) Culture
- D) Anxiety
Which of the following is NOT a source of prejudice?
- A) Personal Sources
- B) Social Sources
- C) Emotional Sources
- D) Cognitive Sources
Repetition has which of the following effects on the stimuli that are initially perceived as negative?
- A) Positive
- B) Encouraging
- C) Conflicting
- D) Opposite
According to Crandall, anti-fat prejudice is strongest in which of the following cultures?
- A) Indian
- B) Japanese
- C) American
- D) Pakistani
___________ is a nuclear scientist and supervised the construction of atom bomb.
- A) Max Opal’s
- B) Harry porter
- C) Jonathan
- D) Oppenheimer
Group size is important when the _______ is clear.
- A) Social reality
- B) Group goals
- C) Cultural norm
- D) Group cohesiveness
Which of the following DOES NOT influence conformity?
- A) Social support
- B) Group cohesiveness
- C) Group size
- D) Creativity
Superficial friendships are formed and maintained because they are rewarding and are based on the principle of:
- A) Equality
- B) Utility
- C) Exchange
- D) Benefits
Which of the following perspectives suggests that individual differences in aggression are partly due to inheritance and hormonal changes?
- A) Evolutionary
- B) Psychology
- C) Biological
- D) Social
Which of the following suggests that aggressive thoughts are linked together in an associative network in memory, so that thinking about one aggressive act should prime other aggressive thoughts?
- A) Organizational pattern theory
- B) Cognition organization theory
- C) Cognitive neo-association theory
- D) Cognitive association theory