This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 12 > Art Humanities > Psychology > Class 12 Psychology Chapter 6 Attitude And Social Cognition – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Psychology Chapter 6 Attitude And Social Cognition Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The negative feelings and unfair treatment we reserve for others simply because we have defined them as being in the out-group A) In group bias. B) Out group bias. C) Conformity. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In group bias. 2. What is an external attribution? A) An explanation of behavior due to factors associated with the situation the person is in. B) An explanation of behavior due to personal characteristics. C) An explanation of behavior due to genetic factors. D) An explanation of behavior due to random chance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An explanation of behavior due to factors associated with the situation the person is in. 3. Which of the following is an example of self-serving bias? A) Attributing a promotion to personal hard work. B) Blaming a lost game on the weather conditions. C) Crediting a successful project to team collaboration. D) Blaming a failed test on personal lack of effort. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Blaming a lost game on the weather conditions. 4. The availability heuristic is fast as we rely on information readily brought to mind to make decisions and solve problems. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 5. What are the two basic ways to persuade people: A) Primacy effect and recency effect. B) Central route and peripheral route. C) Actor-observer and self-serving bias. D) Attribution theory and matching hypothesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Central route and peripheral route. 6. Miss. P who is working full time and applies for a credit account with Myer. She is told that she can't have an account unless her husband acts as a guarantor. Myer don't require male employees to have a guarantor. This is an example of ..... A) Discrimination. B) Stereotyping. C) Anti-discrimination. D) Equal opportunity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Discrimination. 7. What is body language? A) The verbal communication used to express thoughts. B) The written communication used to convey messages. C) The silent language of non-verbal communication through facial expressions, eye gaze, posture, gestures, and other bodily movements. D) The use of technology to communicate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The silent language of non-verbal communication through facial expressions, eye gaze, posture, gestures, and other bodily movements. 8. What does stigma involve? A) Involves negative behaviour aimed at those individuals. B) Involves social disapproval of a group or individual. C) Involves having a negative attitude towards a group or an individual. D) Involves social disapproval of a group or individual. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Involves social disapproval of a group or individual. 9. Beliefs about groups in which we belong. A) Self-fulfilling Prophecy. B) Schemas. C) Social Identity Theory. D) Social Perception. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Social Identity Theory. 10. This proposes that leaders have certain personality traits that inspire change in individuals and organizations. A) Great person theory. B) Transactional view. C) Transformational view. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Transformational view. 11. One key aspect of the representativeness heuristic that distinguishes it from other decision-making heuristics is A) Its reliance on inaccurate information. B) Its reliance on others' opinions. C) Its reliance on mental representations or prototypes. D) Its reliance on available information. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Its reliance on mental representations or prototypes. 12. Schemas in social cognition help us: A) Store irrelevant information. B) Misinterpret social stimuli. C) Organize and recall social information. D) Avoid predicting others' actions. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Organize and recall social information. 13. This compliance technique involves asking for a small commitment and, after gaining compliance, asking for a bigger commitment. A) Foot-in-the-door technique. B) The door-in-the-face technique. C) The low-ball technique. D) The that's-not-all technique. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foot-in-the-door technique. 14. Which of the following is not a component of socialcognition? A) Understanding other people's cognitive oremotional states. B) Carrying out behaviours that take intoconsideration the goals and needs of ourselves andothers. C) Understanding our behaviour when we're alone. D) The detection of facial expressions and emotionalresponses. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Understanding our behaviour when we're alone. 15. Self-serving bias refers to a person's tendency to attribute their successes to ..... and their failures to ..... A) Internal factors; external factors. B) External factors; internal factors. C) An actor; an observer. D) An observer; an actor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal factors; external factors. 16. What is one of the factors that can facilitate attitude change? A) Source. B) Message. C) Target. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 17. 'All thin people don't eat' is an example of a A) Person perception. B) Prejudice. C) Stereotyping. D) Discrimination. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stereotyping. 18. None of Kai's friends receive a Christmas card from him. His friend Nick thinks that there must be a problem with the post. Another friend of Kai's, Nathan, believes that Kai is disorganised and probably forgot to post them. These different judgements about the situation are known as A) Attributions. B) Appearances. C) Stereotypes. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Attributions. 19. Developing racist attitudes through watching and listening to a parent's expression of racist comments within the family environment is best explained by A) Genetics. B) Classical conditioning processes. C) Social learning processes. D) Operant conditioning processes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Social learning processes. 20. Affective refers to A) Feelings and emotions. B) Actions. C) Beliefs. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Feelings and emotions. 21. When we make an external attribution, what do we often assume? A) That most people would respond the same way in that situation. B) That the behavior is due to personal characteristics. C) That the behavior is due to genetic factors. D) That the behavior is due to random chance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) That most people would respond the same way in that situation. 22. How many distinct categories of emotions did Cowen and Keltner identify? A) 27. B) 25. C) 6. D) 26. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 27. 23. An attitude is more likely to predict behaviour when the attitude is A) Learned through cognitive intervention. B) Formed in a social context. C) Under perceived control. D) Strongly held. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Strongly held. 24. ..... IS/ARE COMPONENT[S] OF ATTITUDES. A) VALENCE. B) EXTREMENESS. C) COMPLEXITY/SIMPLICITY. D) CENTRALITY. E) ALL OF THEM. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) ALL OF THEM. 25. What is Old Fashioned Prejudice? A) It is a form of prejudice in which members of the majority group openly reject minority group members and their views towards the minority group are obvious and recognisable to others. B) It is a form of prejudice which is more subtle, hidden and expressed in ways more likely to be accepted within the majority group. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) It is a form of prejudice in which members of the majority group openly reject minority group members and their views towards the minority group are obvious and recognisable to others. 26. Why does contact between groups work to reduce 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. 27. The statement 'All obese people eat too much' is an example of A) Stereotyping. B) Person perception. C) Prejudice. D) Discrimination. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stereotyping. 28. Which of the following characteristics is most likely to influence a first impression when meeting someone? A) Speech content. B) Personality. C) Physical appearance. D) Intelligence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Physical appearance. 29. What is the halo effect? A) The tendency to judge a person based on their worst behavior. B) The influence of a person's positive characteristics on our overall impression of them. C) The process of explaining someone's behavior based on external factors. D) The silent language of non-verbal communication. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The influence of a person's positive characteristics on our overall impression of them. 30. Attributing someone's behaviour to their psychological state is an example of an A) Internal attribution. B) External attribution. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal attribution. 31. Which route of persuasion should be used when an issue is PERSONALLY relevant to an audience? A) Central. B) Peripheral. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Central. 32. What can lead to flawed judgments in person perception? A) Sufficient and reliable information. B) Limited and misleading information. C) Complete and accurate information. D) Unbiased and objective information. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Limited and misleading information. 33. In Classical Conditioning the NS (neutral stimulus) is paired with which stimulus? A) Conditioned Stimulus. B) Learnt Stimulus. C) Unconditioned Stimulus. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unconditioned Stimulus. 34. Ben believes that 'all P-plate drivers are hoons'. Ben'sstatement is an example of A) Stereotyping. B) Affect heuristic. C) The behavioural component of an attitude. D) False-consensus bias. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stereotyping. 35. Perbaikan diri (self-improvement) dapat didorong oleh: A) Social upward comparison & self-focus. B) Social upward comparison & social downward comparison. C) Social upward comparison & kritik. D) Social downward comparison & kritik. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Social upward comparison & kritik. 36. Discrimination is best described as ..... A) A positive action to support someone in a minority group. B) A negative action against someone in a minority group. C) Either a positive or a negative action towards someone in a minority group. D) Stereotyping all individuals in a minority group whilst overlooking individual differences. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Either a positive or a negative action towards someone in a minority group. 37. Carmen is out shopping for work clothes. In the first store she visits, she sees a T-shirt that costs $ 1200. In another store, she sees a second shirt that costs $ 100 and purchases it because she believes the second shirt is a good deal. This is an example of: A) Attentional bias. B) Functional fixedness. C) Actor-observer bias. D) Anchoring bias. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anchoring bias. 38. A student has very strong and negative feelings towards their Psychology Teacher. They express these feelings openly with their friends, however, when the student goes to class, they are very respectful towards the teacher and smile at them. This is an example of: A) Social situation. B) Attitude strength. C) Ambivalence. D) Attitude accessibility. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Social situation. 39. A disadvantage of social categorisation is that A) There isn't enough time to get to know everyone you meet. B) It helps you multitask. C) It can lead to errors of judgement, stereotyping and discrimination against the people you meet. D) It's difficult to observe people to make social categorisations. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It can lead to errors of judgement, stereotyping and discrimination against the people you meet. 40. Dogs are the best, I just love them. They're so smart and cute. I own 2 dogs but would adopt more if I had the chance! Identify the BEHAVIOURAL component of the attitude. A) Loving dogs. B) Owning dogs. C) Believing dogs are smart and cute. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Owning dogs. 41. A positive aspect of stereotypes is that they allow people to A) Have some knowledge about the best way to interact with someone they have just met. B) Evaluate others so that they fit their pre-established ideas about them. C) Focus on the individuality of a person who belongs to a particular group. D) Base their evaluation of others on accurate information. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Have some knowledge about the best way to interact with someone they have just met. 42. Apakah Self-Awareness termasuk dalam Self-Regulation? A) Benar. B) Salah. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Benar. 43. If you love your parents, and respect how they have raised you, so you do not have a party at home without their permission ..... A) Your cognition and attitude match your behaviour. B) Your cognition and attitude do not match your behaviour. C) Your cognition does not match your attitude and bahaviour. D) Your attitude does not match your cognition and behaviour. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Your cognition and attitude match your behaviour. 44. This is the process by which one person tries to change the belief, opinion or course of action of another person through argument, pleading or explanation. A) Persuasion. B) Social compliance. C) Attribution. D) Social conformation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Persuasion. 45. What do some psychologists believe about the components of attitudes? A) Only the affective and cognitive components are necessary. B) Only the behavioural component is necessary. C) All three components must always be consistent. D) The cognitive component is the most important. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Only the affective and cognitive components are necessary. 46. Question 1When an individual's thoughts, feelings and behaviour are affected by the actions of others, then ..... is said to have occurred. A) Power of status. B) Role expectations. C) Conformity. D) Social influence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Social influence. 47. A person who is opposed to Japanese whaling is more likely to do something that is consistent with their attitude if he or she A) Reads a very informative article about the cruelty of Japanese whaling. B) Watches a news items on TV which clearly establishes the excessive slaughter of whales by Japanese whaling fleets. C) Has a very strong attitude against Japanese whaling. D) Has a prejudiced attitude towards Japanese people. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Has a very strong attitude against Japanese whaling. 48. Our beliefs of how worthy we are. A) Self-concept. B) Reference groups. C) Social comparisons. D) Self-esteem. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Self-esteem. 49. What role do first impressions play in interpersonal interactions? A) They are quickly forgotten. B) They last and influence how we treat people. C) They only matter in business relationships. D) They are always accurate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They last and influence how we treat people. 50. Choose the features of attitude A) Extremeness and centrality. B) Schemas and stereotypes. C) A-B-C components. D) Values and beliefs. E) Extremeness and centrality. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Extremeness and centrality. 51. Which way of forming an attitude is the most vulnerable to change? A) Through direct experience. B) Through indirect experience. C) Through learning. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Through indirect experience. 52. True or false Assimilation happens when we encounter opposite information. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 53. Under what conditions can attitudes better predict behavior? A) When attitudes are strong and consistent. B) When attitudes are irrelevant. C) When attitudes are temporary. D) When attitudes are weak and ambiguous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) When attitudes are strong and consistent. 54. First impressions, while not always accurate, tend to guide our decision making around a person. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 55. This occurs when a person slacks off in a group and performs less well than if they were working alone. A) Social loafing. B) Social facilitation. C) Social impairment. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Social loafing. 56. A tendency to overgeneralize how a group of people will behave based on the interaction with only one person from that group. A) Group Attribution Error. B) Cognitive Bias. C) Cognitive Miserness. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Group Attribution Error. 57. This focuses on the ways in which people think about other people and how those thoughts influence behavior. A) Social influence. B) Social facilitation. C) Social processes. D) Social cognition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Social cognition. 58. A key element in persuasion is A) The source of the message. B) The message itself. C) The target audience. D) All of these choices. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these choices. 59. The false-consensus bias is A) The tendency to falsely attribute our actions to the majority. B) The tendency to underestimate the degree to which other people share the same ideas and attitudes that we do. C) The tendency to overestimate the degree to which other people share the same ideas and attitude that do. D) The tendency to falsely attribute other people's ideas and attitudes to external factors. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The tendency to overestimate the degree to which other people share the same ideas and attitude that do. 60. A self-fulfilling prophecy is ..... A) The process by which schemas sometimes influence the social world in ways to make the world consistentwith the schema. B) The result of over-reliance on mental heuristics and memories. C) The end result of having two or more schemas active in our cognitive processes at the same time. D) The end result of having two or more schemas active in our cognitive processes at the same time. 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