Social Psychology 2 Set 5 MCQs

Q1 | The concept of cognitive Dissonance was proposed by

Allport

Weiner.

Festinger.

Bandura.

Q2 | __________ is a branch that study the origin, development, structure, and functioning of socialgroups

Sociology.

Social Psychology.

Antropology.

Personality Psychology.

Q3 | __________ is the key to uncovering causal relationships between variables.

Observation.

Experimental Method.

Case study.

Survey.

Q4 | __________ is the treatment variable that is manipulated by the experimenter.

Dependent variable.

Intervening variable.

Control variable.

Independent variable.

Q5 | Which of the following is not a core value that the field of social psychology is committed to?

Open-mindedness.

Objectivity.

Intuition.

Accuracy.

Q6 | Social psychology seeks to understand __________ in social situations.

Individual Behavior.

Individual thought.

Group behavior.

Both A and B.

Q7 | Which of the following factors that can affect an individual’s behavior in social settings?

Cognitive processes.

Cultural context.

Biological factors.

All of the above are correct.

Q8 | Social psychologists currently view cognition and behavior as

Two distinct groups.

Two distinct, but mutually exclusive concepts.

Two intimately and continuously linked concepts.

Social psychologists still have not come to a unified view of these concepts.

Q9 | The practice of systematic observation is a(n) __________ practice of observation.

Formal.

Informal.

Careful.

Both A and C.

Q10 | If a researcher wanted to determine how consumers felt about a particular detergent, he wouldideally use which research method?

Systematic observation.

The survey method.

A correlational study.

The experimental method.

Q11 | Which of the following represents the strongest correlation

.51

.02

-.91

.00

Q12 | Which of the following elements does an experiment require to be considered successful?

The lack of confounding variables.

The presence of confounding variables.

Random assignment of participants to conditions.

Both A and C are correct.

Q13 | A testable proposition that describes a relationship that may exist between event is

Hypothesis.

Theory.

Research topic.

Direction to research.

Q14 | The study of the naturally occurring relationship among variables is

Experimental research.

Correlational research.

Field research.

Interpretative research.

Q15 | The procedure in which every person in the population being studied has an equal chance ofinclusion is

Survey.

Equal sample.

Controlled sample.

Random sample.

Q16 | A person’s answer to the question “who am I” is

Possible selves.

Self concept.

Self esteem.

Self scheme.

Q17 | Beliefs about self that organize and guide the processing of self-relevant information is

Self-esteem.

Self-reference effect.

Self-schema.

Self-concept.

Q18 | The term “possible selves” does not include

Self-schema.

Self-esteem.

The self we dream of becoming.

The self we fear we might become.

Q19 | Self-esteem is

The total of our possible selves.

The sum of all our self-schemas.

The total sum of our thoughts about ourselves.

A person’s overall evaluation of oneself.

Q20 | The art of expressing oneself in ways designed to create a favourable impression is

Self-presentation.

Self-monitoring.

Self-handicapping.

Egocentric role playing

Q21 | __________ is defined as the study of how we form impression of and make inferences aboutother people

Social perception.

Social facilitation.

Social loafing.

Social cognition.

Q22 | __________ states that first impression are very important

Recency effect.

Placebo effect.

Hallo effect.

Primacy effect.

Q23 | __________ is the extent to which other people behave in the same way in similar situation.

Distinctiveness.

Consensus.

Consistency.

Validity.

Q24 | The originator of message or the information source selects desire message.

Sender.

Encoder.

Decoder.

Noise.

Q25 | “ABX” model of communication was proposed by

Shannon.

Weaver.

Newcomb.

De Fleur