This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 12 > Art Humanities > Psychology > Class 12 Psychology Chapter 6 Attitude And Social Cognition – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Psychology Chapter 6 Attitude And Social Cognition Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. I like eating chocolate but I know it's bad for me. What is this an example of? A) Central Route of Persuasion. B) Cognitive Dissonance. C) Being a glutton. D) Peripheral Route of Persuasion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cognitive Dissonance. 2. Four friends were in the car singing to songs on the radio, and only one individual saw an elderly man sitting on the footpath clutching his chest. What factor would have influenced the decision to provide help? A) Social factor of social responsibility norm. B) Situational factor of taking responsibility for helping. C) Situational factor of noticing the situation. D) Social factor of reciprocity norm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Situational factor of noticing the situation. 3. Although a person's attitudes can change, they usually stay the same because of: A) The recency effect. B) Self-serving bias. C) Cognitive anchors. D) The primacy effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cognitive anchors. 4. When the assumed cause of someone else's behavior is thought to be "internally" caused A) Situational Attribution. B) Self-serving Attribution. C) Attribution. D) Dispositional Attribution. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dispositional Attribution. 5. The process by which individuals explain the causes of behavior and events A) Attribution. B) Self Serving Bias. C) Cognitive miser. D) Disposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Attribution. 6. This is how attitudes can be formed. A) Through direct contact with the person, object or situation. B) By interacting with other people. C) By observing the actions and reaction of others to situations, objects or ideas. D) All of these choices. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these choices. 7. A, B, C Components in Attitude are ..... A) Affect, Behaviour, Cognitive. B) Affect, Behaviour, Competence. C) Attention, Beliefs, Cognitive. D) Affect, Benefit, Cognitive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Affect, Behaviour, Cognitive. 8. Classical Conditioning is a simple form of learning which occurs through ..... of two different stimuli A) Repeated; Pairing. B) Multiple; Exposure. C) Repeated; association. D) Multiple; Pairing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repeated; association. 9. Gambaran campuran dari apa yang kita pikirkan, bagaimana pendapat orang lain mengenai diri kita, dan seperti apa diri kita yang kita inginkan merupakan pengertian dari ..... A) Self Concept. B) Self Schema. C) Self Esteem. D) Self Regulation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Self Concept. 10. This component of attitudes is the action a person takes in regard to the person, object or situation. A) Affective. B) Behavioral. C) Cognitive. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Behavioral. 11. Which of the following is a reason why contact between groups reduces prejudice? A) It just works and research cannot explain why. B) Through mere exposure, people tend to come to like one another regardless of the circumstances. C) Contact provides more information about the other group, helping the groups to see the similarities between them. D) Contact promotes the illusion that members of a group are all alike. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Contact provides more information about the other group, helping the groups to see the similarities between them. 12. Clara belongs to a sorority that is full of intelligent, hard-working and attractive woman. Based on her evaluation of herself relative to her sorority sisters, she considers herself to be about average. Clara is using ..... in her evaluation of herself. A) Social referencing. B) Social comparision. C) Relative deprivation. D) A schema. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Social comparision. 13. The relationship between attitudes and behaviour are usually A) Consistent. B) Indirect. C) Direct. D) Inconsistent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consistent. 14. Which of the following are situational factors that influence helping behaviour? A) Noticing the situation. B) Interpreting the situation. C) Taking responsibility to help. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 15. If you are a black male, then according to the stereotype content model you would likely perceive a wealthy black male as: A) Cold and competent. B) Warm and competent. C) Cold and incompetent. D) Warm and incompetent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Warm and competent. 16. This component of attitudes is the way a persons thinks about the person, object or situation. A) Affective. B) Behavioral. C) Cognitive. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cognitive. 17. Psychologist who developed the theory of social comparisons. A) Neon Leon. B) Leon McCulloch. C) Leon Spinks. D) Leon Festinger. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Leon Festinger. 18. The cognitive part of an attitude relates to ..... A) Beliefs. B) Feelings. C) Actions. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beliefs. 19. True or FalsePriming affects memory. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 20. At the conclusion of the obedience experiments, Milgram was required to follow ethical guidelines and inform participants of the true nature of the study. Which of the following processes would meet the ethical guidelines associated with this? A) Informed consent. B) Withdrawal rights. C) Debriefing. D) Confidentiality. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Debriefing. 21. If individuals experience cognitive dissonance, they cannot do anything to alleviate it. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 22. Arousing fear is which part of SMAC? A) Channel. B) Audience. C) Source. D) Message. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Message. 23. What topic do people spend the greatest amount of time thinking about? A) Food. B) Weather. C) People. D) Money. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) People. 24. The behavioural part of an attitude relates to ..... A) Beliefs. B) Feelings. C) Actions. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Actions. 25. What does the cognitive component of an attitude refer to? A) The beliefs we have about an object, person, group, event, or issue. B) The physical reactions to an external stimulus. C) The genetic predispositions to certain behaviors. D) The random thought processes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The beliefs we have about an object, person, group, event, or issue. 26. Person perception is: A) Unbiased. B) The process of forming ideas about others. C) Not influenced by appearance. D) The ideas or concepts that help us to organise information into categories or groups. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The process of forming ideas about others. 27. Which of the following statements is true about stereotypes? A) A stereotype is a positive evaluation towards an object or person. B) A stereotype is a negative evaluation towards an object or person. C) Stereotypes can be limiting and insulting. D) Stereotypes reduce prejudice. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stereotypes can be limiting and insulting. 28. Another word for attitude change is ..... A) Changing attitudes. B) Perception. C) Attitude readjustment. D) Persuasion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Persuasion. 29. The self serving bias attributes causes to who's behavior? A) Someone else. B) Oneself. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oneself. 30. What is the commonly used definition of an attitude in psychology? A) An evaluation a person makes about an object, person, group, event, or issue. B) A physical reaction to an external stimulus. C) A genetic predisposition to certain behaviors. D) A random thought process. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An evaluation a person makes about an object, person, group, event, or issue. 31. Identify the correct sequence of situational factors. A) Noticing, taking responsibility, interpreting. B) Interpreting, noticing, taking responsibility. C) Noticing, interpreting, taking responsibility. D) Taking responsibility, noticing, interpreting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Noticing, interpreting, taking responsibility. 32. Which of the following statements about the affect heuristic is correct? A) The affect heuristic involves using cognitive strategies to make decisions. B) The affect heuristic involves using learned behaviours to make decisions. C) The affect heuristic involves using emotions to make decisions. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The affect heuristic involves using emotions to make decisions. 33. Mengetahui nama-nama ibukota, merupakan contoh dari ingatan ..... A) Procedural Memory. B) Working Memory. C) Episodic Memory. D) Semantic Memory. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Semantic Memory. 34. Our belief of who we are. A) Social comparisons. B) Self-esteem. C) Self-concept. D) Reference groups. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Self-concept. 35. The strategy of judging the likelihood of things by how well they match what we expect constitutes which heuristic? A) Availability. B) Representativeness. C) Vividness. D) Matching. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Representativeness. 36. Which of the following is not a way to reduce the fundamental attribution error? A) Think of how you would react if you were in their shoes. B) Being empathetic/sympathetic. C) People are cognitive misers. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) People are cognitive misers. 37. Which neural regions are correctly matched with the brain regions? A) FEAR-TEMPORAL POLE. B) ANGER-OFC. C) DISGUST-PFC. D) SADNESS-AMYGDALA. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) ANGER-OFC. 38. Mental frameworks for organizing and processing social information are known as ..... A) Affective states. B) Anchoring frameworks. C) Schemas. D) Heuristics. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Schemas. 39. The term "cognitive load" refers to ..... A) The strength displayed by a schema in activating memories. B) The amount of mental effort we are expending at a given time. C) The relatively rational and orderly process used in making social cognitions. D) The number of heuristics we are using at a given time. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The amount of mental effort we are expending at a given time. 40. Gilbert et al. assessed the neural responses of participants when they were engaged in stereotyping and evaluative / prejudicial thoughts. Which of these statements would assess a person's stereotyping processes when comparing black and white males. A) Who is more interested in cars?. B) Who is more likely to be a friend?. C) Who appears more aggressive?. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Who is more interested in cars?. 41. Rule of thumb where people base judgments on how easy it is to bring to mind is ..... A) Availability heuristics. B) Automatic pilot. C) Representativeness heuristics. D) Judgmental heuristics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Availability heuristics. 42. An essential feature of an attitude is that it involves A) Behaviour that can be observes either directly or indirectly. B) An evaluation. C) Prejudice. D) An opinion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An evaluation. 43. FAE attributes behavior to which type of cause? A) Dispositional. B) Situational. C) Both. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dispositional. 44. Fill in the blanks:An evaluation refers to a judgement being made, either ..... , ..... or ..... about some specific aspect of our lives and the world in which we live. A) Neutral, negative or favourable. B) Negative, positive or uninterested. C) Favourable, negative or positive. D) Positive, negative or neutral. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Positive, negative or neutral. 45. After conditioning, the previously neutral stimulus becomes the ..... A) Conditioned Stimulus. B) Conditioned Response. C) Learnt Stimulus. D) Unconditioned Stimulus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conditioned Stimulus. 46. Basic background knowledge based on past experience that helps us understand new information. A) Social Perception. B) Schemas. C) Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. D) Relative Deprivation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Schemas. 47. Simple rules for making complex decisions or drawing inferences are known as ..... A) Heuristics. B) Automaticity. C) Anchoring and adjustment. D) Schemas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heuristics. 48. This is when the performance of an individual on a relatively difficult task is negatively affected by the presence of others. A) Social facilitation. B) Social loafing. C) Social impairment. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Social impairment. 49. How are attitudes formed through interaction with others? A) Observational learning. B) Direct contact. C) Interaction with others. D) Direct instruction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Interaction with others. 50. What are central traits? A) Traits linked only to negative behavior. B) Traits that dominate someone's life. C) Traits that influence perception of other traits. D) Traits ignored during impression formation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Traits that influence perception of other traits. 51. Punishment works to ..... a behaviour whereas reinforcement works to ..... a behaviour. A) Strengthen; Weaken. B) Strengthen; Encourage. C) Encourage; Weaken. D) Weaken; Strengthen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Weaken; Strengthen. 52. Cognitive Dissonance was proposed by A) Dennise Richard. B) Hans Seyle. C) Leon Festinger. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Leon Festinger. 53. This is an explanation of behavior based on factors in the surrounding environment or situation. A) Situational cause. B) Dispositional cause. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Situational cause. 54. Heuristics are slow, complex strategies that help us make decisions and solve problems. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 55. This is the process of explaining the behavior of others as well as one's behavior. A) Attribution. B) Social interaction. C) Persuasion. D) Social influence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Attribution. 56. Arlene is very upset that the government is increasing tertiary HECS fees. Last weekend, Arlene joined thousands of other students to protest this issue. According to the tri-component model of attitudes, Arlene's protesting would come under the A) Behavioural component. B) Designated component. C) Cognitive component. D) Affective component. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Behavioural component. 57. If you think all Latin people are good dancers, this is an example of? A) A positive prejudice. B) A positive steroetype. C) A negative steroetype. D) A negative prejudice. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A positive steroetype. 58. People are less likely to evaluate messages carefully when they are: A) In a good mood. B) Feeling ill. C) Depressed. D) Under stress. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In a good mood. 59. Attribution theory explains how we: A) Avoid biases. B) Predict the future. C) Decide causes of behavior. D) Memorize facts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Decide causes of behavior. 60. The ways that our thinking, feeling, or beliefs that are constructed within a social context by the actual or imagined interactions with others A) Social Cognition. B) Cognitive Miser. C) Attribution. D) Cognitive Bias. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Social Cognition. Next →Related QuizzesArt Humanities QuizzesClass 12 QuizzesClass 12 Psychology Chapter 6 Attitude And Social Cognition Quiz 2Class 12 Psychology Chapter 6 Attitude And Social Cognition Quiz 3Class 12 Psychology Chapter 6 Attitude And Social Cognition Quiz 4Class 12 Psychology Chapter 6 Attitude And Social Cognition Quiz 5Class 12 Psychology Chapter 6 Attitude And Social Cognition Quiz 6Class 12 Psychology Chapter 6 Attitude And Social Cognition Quiz 7Class 12 Psychology Chapter 1 Variations In Psychological Attributes QuizClass 12 Psychology Chapter 10 Industrial Organisational Psychology Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books