This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 12 > Art Humanities > Psychology > Class 12 Psychology Chapter 6 Attitude And Social Cognition – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Psychology Chapter 6 Attitude And Social Cognition Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does "person perception" refer to? A) The mental processes we use to think about and evaluate other people. B) The physical appearance of a person. C) The way people dress. D) The way people speak. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The mental processes we use to think about and evaluate other people. 2. What are the three components of attitude? A) Emotional, Rational, Volitional. B) Social, Personal, Environmental. C) Cognitive, Affective, Behavioral. D) Positive, Negative, Neutral. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cognitive, Affective, Behavioral. 3. Prejudice involves negative behaviours against others. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 4. Which component of attitude is related to feelings or emotions? A) Cognitive component. B) Psychological component. C) Affective component. D) Behavioural component. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Affective component. 5. This component of attitudes is the way a person feels toward an object, person or situation. A) Affective. B) Behavioral. C) Cognitive. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Affective. 6. Self-serving bias tends to be less common in ..... cultures. A) Collectivist. B) Western. C) North American. D) Individualistic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Collectivist. 7. Which of the following behaviours best indicates old-fashioned prejudice? A) Making negative comments about the sexual preferences of a male nurse. B) Being unconcerned about the appointment of a female to a position not traditionally held by females. C) Publicly expressing a view that all people should have equal rights. D) Publicly expressing a view that all people should have equal rights, but privately being against equal rights for all people. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Making negative comments about the sexual preferences of a male nurse. 8. When people engage in sad emotion what is the decision making style that they will engage in? A) Make decision based on their emotion. B) Asking others and use their answer to make decision. C) Use spontaneous decision making. D) More careful and deliberate longer over decisions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) More careful and deliberate longer over decisions. 9. The fundamental attribution error is the tendency to: A) Accurately assess situational and dispositional factors. B) Overemphasize situational causes of behavior. C) Overestimate dispositional causes of others' behavior. D) Ignore all causal explanations. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Overestimate dispositional causes of others' behavior. 10. This is an explanation of behavior based on the internal personality characteristics of the person being observed. A) Situational cause. B) Personal cause. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personal cause. 11. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of discrimination? A) Involves having a negative attitude towards a group or an individual. B) Involves having a negative attitude towards a group or an individual. C) Involves negative behaviour aimed at those individuals. D) Involves social disapproval of a group or individual. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Involves social disapproval of a group or individual. 12. ..... focuses on the ways in which people think about other people and how those cognitions influence behavior toward those other people. A) Attitude. B) Cognitive Dissonance. C) Impression Formation. D) Social Cognition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Social Cognition. 13. Based on the stereotype content model, which stereotype exhibits low status and low competitiveness: A) Admiration. B) Paternalistic Stereotype. C) Envious Stereotype. D) Contemptuous Stereotype. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Contemptuous Stereotype. 14. Strong attitudes are ..... likely to influence behaviour. A) More. B) Less. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) More. 15. What is the concept that best describe the following statement?Mental process activated by desires and feelings A) Representativeness heuristics. B) Embodied cognition. C) Hot cognition. D) Mental schemas. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hot cognition. 16. Structure of Attitudes is explained by the ABC Model which stands for ..... A) Attitude, Behaviour, Cognition. B) Affective, Behaviour, Comparisons. C) Attitude, Bi-directional, Cognition. D) Affective, Behaviour, Cognition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Affective, Behaviour, Cognition. 17. People's attitudes ALWAYS align with their behaviour. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 18. What influences what schemas we use? A) Accessibility. B) Contiguity. C) Knowledge. D) Assimilation. E) Accomodation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Accessibility. 19. Claire and Peter have been working for the same employer for 10 years doing the same job. Claire earns $ 7, 000 less than Peter. This is an example of: A) Judgement. B) Discrimination. C) Prejudice. D) Stereotype. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Discrimination. 20. John believes that planes are more dangerous than cars. What might the availability heuristic tell us about John? A) John hasn't been in a car accident before. B) John has a phobia of planes. C) John's parents are more likely to be afraid of planes. D) John has probably seen vivid news stories about plane crashes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) John has probably seen vivid news stories about plane crashes. 21. Tom was voted as captain of his class, Luke said it was because there were no other candidates. This is an example of A) Discrimination. B) Personal attribution. C) Situational attribution. D) Prejudice. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Situational attribution. 22. What is attribution in social cognition? A) Avoiding the causes of behavior. B) Creating random causes for behavior. C) Ignoring the causes of behavior. D) Understanding the causes of behavior. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Understanding the causes of behavior. 23. Punishment and reinforcements are examples of which learning theory? A) Operant Conditioning. B) Social Learning Theory. C) Repeated Exposure. D) Classical Conditioning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Operant Conditioning. 24. People's greater fear of flying than of driving can probably best be explained by which heuristic? A) Representativeness. B) Simulation. C) Anchoring and adjustment. D) Availability. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Availability. 25. Which of the following dimensions have been used to characterise people's affective responses? A) Pleasentness. B) Engagement. C) Positive affect. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 26. What is an Outgroup? A) Any group that you belong to or identify with. B) Any group you do not belong to or identify with. C) Holding a negative attitude towards the members of a group, based solely on their membership of that group. D) Collection of beliefs that we have about the people who belong to a certain group, regardless of individual differences among members of that group. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Any group you do not belong to or identify with. 27. Our attitudes will predict our behavior if? A) The attitudes are unrelated to central values. B) We feel anxious or insecure. C) We are made aware of social norms. D) As we act, we are conscious of our attitudes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) As we act, we are conscious of our attitudes. 28. Joe has been earning $ 1 million a year, starring in a television show, and is the highest paid actress on that network. However, several actors on other shows, less highly rated than hers, make 5 million a year. To keep from resenting the situation she should: A) Complain publicly. B) Work harder. C) Complain privately ro her friends. D) Change her reference group. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Change her reference group. 29. Which bias relates to our tendency to pay attention to some things and ignore others, thereby limiting our options? A) Actor-observer bias. B) Anchoring bias. C) Attentional bias. D) Functional fixedness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Attentional bias. 30. Ingatan yang meliputi bagaimana seseorang melakukan sesuatu, biasanya otomatis dan tahan akan lupa. Yaitu ..... A) Episodic Memory. B) Procedural Memory. C) Working Memory. D) Semantic Memory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Procedural Memory. 31. The ways in which we interpret, analyze, remember, and use information about the social world are known as ..... A) Automatic processing. B) Schemas. C) Encoding. D) Social cognition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Social cognition. 32. What is Modern 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: 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. 33. What is an example of the affective component of attitude towards exercise? A) Purchasing fitness equipment. B) Believing that exercise is important for health. C) Regularly going to the gym. D) Feeling energized and happy after a workout. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Feeling energized and happy after a workout. 34. What is a limitation of the tri-component model of attitudes? A) There can be inconsistency between two or more of the components. B) There should be more than three components. C) It is outdated. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) There can be inconsistency between two or more of the components. 35. On her first day of kindergarten Rosa watches some third graders practice arithmetic at break. She thinks they are much smarter than she is and that she will never be able to pass third grade roses thinking demonstrates: A) Downward social comparision. B) Conditions of worth. C) Upward social comparision. D) Relative deprivation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Upward social comparision. 36. An attitude is ..... a person makes about an object, person, event or issue. A) An emotion. B) An evaluation. C) A thought. D) A behaviour. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An evaluation. 37. Preferential or disadvantageous behavior toward an individual or group. A) Prejudice. B) Discrimination. C) Other-race-effect. D) Obedience. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Discrimination. 38. Fill in the blank At attitude is a/n ..... a person makes about an object, person, group, event or issue. A) Opinion. B) Judgement. C) Belief. D) Evaluation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Evaluation. 39. You took one look at surge and thought he was bright caring and understanding. Your behaviour certainly brought out those qualities and search. How can this best be explained? A) Actor-observer effect. B) Self-fulfilling prophecy. C) Fundamental attribution error. D) Confirmation bias. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Self-fulfilling prophecy. 40. A cognitive miser is anyone who seeks out quick, adequate solutions to problems rather than slow, careful ones A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 41. The scapegoat theory is A) The unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice. B) The tendency to favor one's own group. C) The theory that prejudice offers an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame. D) The theory that our social behavior is an exchange process, the aim of which is to maximize benefits and minimize costs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The theory that prejudice offers an outlet for anger by providing someone to blame. 42. What are the three main characteristics of a group? A) Two or more people, interaction between people, share all interests. B) Two or more people, share a common goal, share all interests. C) People who share a common goal, see each other at least once a week, influence eachother. D) Two or more people, influence and interaction between members, share a common goal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Two or more people, influence and interaction between members, share a common goal. 43. True or FalseEmbodied cognition is a form of priming A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 44. Positive or negative affect without specific targets describes: A) Affect. B) Emotions. C) Preferences. D) Moods. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Moods. 45. Which of the following best describes a heuristic? A) A strategy that enables individuals to make unconscious decisions that result in error. B) A strategy that allows people to make complex decisions after a long period of time. C) A strategy that enables individuals to form judgements, make decisions, and solve problems quicklyand efficiently. D) A strategy that involves systematic procedures to provide solutions to problems. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A strategy that enables individuals to form judgements, make decisions, and solve problems quicklyand efficiently. 46. Comparing to those who are not very good in order to protect our self-esteem. For example, Dr. Cesar compares his singing ability to Jacob Adams when Matt states that his voice could break a window. A) Social Identity Theory. B) Downward Social Comparison. C) Social Perception. D) Relative Deprivation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Downward Social Comparison. 47. These leaders are skillful at getting people in a group to work harmoniously. A) Task-oriented. B) Relationship-oriented. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Relationship-oriented. 48. One way that schemas influence social thought is by ..... A) Ensuring that inconsistent information is stored in our memories and retrieved rapidly. B) Increasing our cognitive load by activating more information from our long term memory stores. C) Activating the availability heuristic and enabling automatic priming. D) Acting as a filter to direct our attention towards some information and away from other information. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Acting as a filter to direct our attention towards some information and away from other information. 49. This compliance technique involves getting a commitment from a person and then raising the cost of that 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: C) The low-ball technique. 50. I enjoy Psychology. I think it helps me learn useful information about how people think and behave. I will continue this subject in university. Identify the COGNITIVE component of this attitude. A) I enjoy Psychology. B) I think it helps me learn useful information about how people think and behave. C) I will continue this subject in university. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I think it helps me learn useful information about how people think and behave. 51. Cats are the best, I just love them. They're so smart and cute. I own 2 cats but would adopt more if I had the chance! Identify the BEHAVIOURAL component of the attitude. A) Loving cats. B) Owning cats. C) Believing cats are smart and cute. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Owning cats. 52. Organized beliefs we have about stimuli in our social world are known as what? A) Self concepts. B) Automatic processes. C) Deliberate processes. D) Schemas. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Schemas. 53. Who was the researcher who found the limitation of the Tri-component model? A) Freud. B) Zimbardo. C) Piaget. D) La Pierre. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) La Pierre. 54. Deductive reasoning starts with: A) Specific observations and leads to general conclusions. B) General principles applied to specific cases. C) Analogies between unrelated concepts. D) Emotional responses. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) General principles applied to specific cases. 55. People with low self esteem do not have sufficient A) Belief. B) Opinion. C) Confidence. D) Value. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Confidence. 56. How are our attitudes formed? A) Through experience and interaction with various individuals and groups. B) Through genetic inheritance. C) Through random chance. D) Through reading books only. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Through experience and interaction with various individuals and groups. 57. This theory states that leaders are extraordinary people who lead because they are born to do so. A) Great person theory. B) Transactional view. C) Transformational view. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Great person theory. 58. What is cognition associated with? A) Physical activities. B) Mental activities like thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. C) Emotional activities. D) Social activities. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mental activities like thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating. 59. Milgram's shock experiment was about A) Social facilitation. B) Obedience. C) Compliance. D) Conformity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Obedience. 60. This is when the performance of an individual on a relatively easy task is improved by the presence of others. A) Social facilitation. B) Social loafing. C) Social impairment. D) None of the above. 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