MCQ Bank
Which of the following is defined as weak version of an opposing argument that stimulates defense against a future opposing argument?
- A) Attitudinal Inoculation
- B) Attitudinal Immaturity
- C) Attitude formation
- D) Attitudinal orientation
Who among the following experimented on contact between members of different social groups?
- A) McGarry
- B) Rosch
- C) Aarther
- D) Wright
Repetition has which of the following effects on the stimuli that are initially perceived as negative?
- A) Conflicting
- B) Encouraging
- C) Opposite
- D) Positive
Which of the following helps to reduce prejudice?
- A) Religion
- B) Culture
- C) Society
- D) Values
Which of the following means having a smaller or less satisfying network of social and intimate relationships than we desire?
- A) Hate
- B) Isolation
- C) Loneliness
- D) Dispersion
This tendency to be attracted to others who are similar to us in particular characteristics, such as physical attractiveness, is known as the what?
- A) Matching hypothesis
- B) Affiliation theory
- C) Attraction
- D) Physical attractiveness
Adorno, Frenkel-Brunswick, Levinson, & Stanford (1950) constructed the ______________ scale to measure authoritarian personality.
- A) CPI
- B) Fascist
- C) Five factor
- D) MMPI
Good mood, involvement and individual differences are which variables among the followings?
- A) Audience variables
- B) General variables
- C) Sender’s variables
- D) Object variables
Sherif et al.’s summer camp (robber’s cave) experiments were conducted in which year?
- A) 1955
- B) 1997
- C) 1999
- D) 1998
“Autobiography of a Face” is written by ___________, who is an American poet.
- A) Lucy Graely
- B) William worth
- C) Elizabeth taylor
- D) Emily dickision
Which of the following explains our need for affiliation?
- A) Social affiliation theory
- B) Social bias theory
- C) Social cognitive theory
- D) Social comparison theory
Which of the following factor DOES NOT affect dissonance?
- A) Justification
- B) Investment
- C) Observation
- D) Freedom of choice
Which of the following is a negative behavior directed towards the members of a prejudiced social group?
- A) Stereotypes
- B) Behavior
- C) Attitude
- D) Discrimination
Persuasion is attitude change via a/an _________ message.
- A) External
- B) Ordinary
- C) Internal
- D) Important
Self-concept contains which of the following with a personal identity?
- A) Work identity
- B) Formal identity
- C) Gender Identity
- D) Social identity
Which of the following is not an important characteristic of interpersonal attraction?
- A) Similarity
- B) Physical attractiveness
- C) Conformity
- D) Desirable personal attributes
Who among the followings is the nephew of Freud, used attractive “liberated” women in an ad campaign for the cigarette industry to serve as a “torch of freedom” symbol?
- A) Edward Bernays
- B) Kumkale
- C) Albarrachin
- D) Ana Freud
Anti-fat prejudice is strongest in _________cultures.
- A) Individualistic
- B) Nomadic
- C) Collectivistic
- D) Liberal
Which of the following is NOT a source of prejudice?
- A) Emotional Sources
- B) Cognitive Sources
- C) Personal Sources
- D) Social Sources
Who talked about locus of causality as an important concept in relation to attribution?
- A) Gardner Lindzey
- B) Daniel T. Gilbert
- C) Fritz Heider
- D) Fritz Perls