This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Cbse > Class 12 > Art Humanities > Psychology > Class 12 Psychology Chapter 7 Social Influence And Group Processes – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Psychology Chapter 7 Social Influence And Group Processes Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When you get a summons for jury duty, you must go because it is required by law. This is an example of which type of conformity? A) Identification. B) Internalization. C) Identity formation. D) Compliance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Compliance. 2. ..... group are groups that consumers compare themselves to or associate with. A) Reference. B) Evaluation. C) Society. D) Associate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reference. 3. Which of the following is a common reason for group cohesion? A) Shared interests. B) Individual competition. C) Varied backgrounds. D) Geographical distance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shared interests. 4. Situational variables include those where a person's immediate and social environment may influence their behaviour. Which one is not a situational variable? A) Location. B) Personality. C) Proximity. D) Uniform. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personality. 5. What did the results of Milgram's famous experiment show? A) That guards are mean to prisoners. B) That ethics in science don't matter. C) That people aren't important in experiments. D) That people were willing to obey orders to hurt others. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) That people were willing to obey orders to hurt others. 6. Which theory postulates that conflict between groups may arise due to identification with an in-group and categorizing others as an out-group A) Social Cognitive Theory. B) Realistic Group Conflict Theory. C) Social Identity Theory. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Social Identity Theory. 7. What is the result of group polarization? A) Increased conflict. B) Decreased cohesiveness. C) Weaker group decisions. D) Stronger group positions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stronger group positions. 8. Collection of people assembled for a particular purpose is called an A) Spectators. B) Crowd. C) Audience. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Audience. 9. The concept of stages of group formation was given by A) Plank. B) Tuckman. C) Janis. D) Freud. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tuckman. 10. The agentic state is ..... A) A mental state when we feel responsibility for our behaviour. B) A phyiscal state when we feel no personal responsibility for our behaviour because we believe ourselves to be acting for an authority figure. C) A physical state when we feel responsibility for our behaviour. D) A mental state when we feel no personal responsibility for our behaviour because we believe ourselves to be acting for an authority figure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A mental state when we feel no personal responsibility for our behaviour because we believe ourselves to be acting for an authority figure. 11. Which type of group is characterized by close, personal relationships? A) Formal group. B) Informal group. C) Secondary group. D) Primary group. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Primary group. 12. People with the Authoritarian Personality are very preoccupied with social status. Therefore they: A) Treat all people with respect. B) Feel sympathetic to those of lower status. C) Tend not to be impressed by the trappings of high status. D) Are servile and obedient towards those of higher status. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Are servile and obedient towards those of higher status. 13. What is the critical factor in creating an effective group? A) Encouraging conformity as the highest value. B) Promoting diversity of knowledge and experience. C) Avoiding any form of dissent or disagreement. D) Focusing on individual intelligence and decision-making. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Avoiding any form of dissent or disagreement. 14. Your friends are obsessed with a new TV show. You watch it with them a few times when you hang out together. Eventually, you begin to like the show so much that you start watching it on your own. This is an example of which type of conformity? A) Social loafing. B) Compliance. C) Identification. D) Internalization. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Internalization. 15. Which factor doesn't lead to group formation A) Status. B) Common motives. C) Proximity. D) Similarity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Status. 16. If a consumer admires the qualities of another person and copies his or her behaviors, the person that is copied has ..... power. A) Referent. B) Coercive. C) Legitimate. D) Informational. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Referent. 17. ..... describes the capacity to alter the actions of others. A) Social involvement. B) Social pressure. C) Social interaction. D) Social power. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Social power. 18. Social influence is also known as A) Social identity theory. B) Authority. C) Conformity. D) Peer pressure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Peer pressure. 19. ..... can be defined as two or more persons related by blood, marriage, or adoption residing together. A) INDIVIDUALS. B) FRIENDS. C) SIBLINGS. D) FAMILY. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) FAMILY. 20. When Austin was investigating the violent behaviour of a mob, he asked everyone involved to take a survey. As a result, 80% said that they were not responsible of any loss. What explains the responses of these people? A) Conformity/Influence. B) Compliance. C) Deindividuation. D) Identification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deindividuation. 21. Which of the following is true about types of reference groupI Aspirational GroupII Formal and informal groupIII Non-membership and membership groupIII Primary and Elementary group A) I, II AND III. B) I, II AND IV. C) I, III AND IV. D) II, III AND IV. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I, II AND III. 22. Milgram collected a range of data. Which of the following is quantitative? A) Stutter. B) Seizures. C) Biting their lip. D) Shock level delivered. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Shock level delivered. 23. A participant modifies their own behaviour to meet the needs of the study. What best explains this? A) Conformity. B) Demand Characteristics. C) Deindividuation. D) Social support. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Demand Characteristics. 24. Extreme cohesiveness may sometimes not be in group's interest. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 25. It's Oliver's first day of school and he is keen to make a good impression. He pretends to be interested in the other students' conversation even though he really finds them boring.Why is he doing this? A) Because he's shy and doesn't want to stand out. B) Informational social influence. C) Identification. D) Normative social influence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Normative social influence. 26. When asked your favorite NFL team is you say the Packers b/c that's what most pple in WI say (but you don't actually think that) A) This shows private conformity. B) This shows informational influence. C) This shows public conformity. D) This shows reciprocal determinism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) This shows public conformity. 27. How many participants were there in the 1963 baseline procedure? A) 45. B) 40. C) 35. D) 30. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 40. 28. Which out of the following is not a characteristic feature of mob: A) Passive. B) Impulsive. C) Homogeneity of thought. D) Polarisation of action. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Passive. 29. A confederate is ..... A) An individual in a study who is a real participant and has been instructed on how to behave by the researcher. B) An individual in a study who is not a real participant. C) An individual in a study who is not a real participant and has been instructed on how to behave by the researcher. D) An individual in a study who is a real participant and has not been instructed on how to behave by the researcher. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An individual in a study who is not a real participant and has been instructed on how to behave by the researcher. 30. Which of the following best describes a secondary group? A) A group formed for a specific purpose. B) A group with no defined structure. C) A group that is informal. D) A group with close personal ties. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A group formed for a specific purpose. 31. What percentage of the group went along with the wrong answer? A) 66%. B) 33%. C) 50%. D) 75%. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 75%. 32. Which of the following concepts did Solomon Asch study in the Asch Line Experiment? A) Role. B) Obedience. C) Conformity. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Conformity. 33. Why does inefficiency in groups occur? A) Because people's emotional needs are not met in large groups. B) Because groups lack a strong leader. C) Because group members rarely feel connected to their team. D) Because of the need to organize and delegate tasks. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Because of the need to organize and delegate tasks. 34. Any explanation of behaviour that highlights the importance of an individual's personality is a ..... explanation A) Situational. B) Dispositional. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dispositional. 35. Which of the following is an example of a primary group? A) A classroom. B) A sports team. C) A family. D) A political party. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A family. 36. Someone asks u 2 give 5 hours of your time a week for the next year as a volunteer to a charity. After hearing this offer you think it's a huge request & instead of committing to all this volunteering time, u just donate a small amount of $ A) This is foot in the door. B) This is door in the face. C) This is low balling. D) This is that's not all. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) This is door in the face. 37. What is the primary function of norms within a group? A) To establish roles for members. B) To determine group size. C) To guide expected behavior. D) To set group goals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To guide expected behavior. 38. Who proposed the Authoritarian Personality? A) Milgram. B) Elms and Milgram. C) Adorno. D) Greenstein. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adorno. 39. What is the term for the shared beliefs and values that bind a group together? A) Group cohesion. B) Group identity. C) Group dynamics. D) Group norms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Group cohesion. 40. Obedience is ..... A) A form of social influence in which an individual changes their behaviour. B) A form of social influence in which an individual changes the views of the majority. C) A form of social influence in which an individual follows a direct order. D) A form of social influence in which gives an individual control. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A form of social influence in which an individual follows a direct order. 41. Legitimacy of authority is a good explanation of cultural differences in obedience because ..... A) Some cultures are traditionally more respectful of authority than others. B) Some cultures are traditionally less respectful of authority than others. C) Cultures differ in the way parents raise children to view authority figures. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 42. Normative social influence may lead to which type of conformity? A) Legitimacy. B) Reciprocity. C) Compliance. D) Internalisation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Compliance. 43. Power that is backed by the threat of force is called ..... power. A) Influential. B) Coercive. C) Legal-rational. D) Social. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Coercive. 44. When constructing an attitude scale you need to A) Be mindful of how the words are framed. B) Remember pple might not be honest. C) All of the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) All of the above. 45. ..... the process in which people change their beliefs, attitudes, actions, or perceptions to more closely match those held by groups to which they belong or want to belong. A) Social loafing. B) Conformity. C) Social influence. D) Groupthink. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conformity. 46. Which of the following occurs when you agree to the request of another person even though you don't think the request is right? A) Deindividuation. B) Compliance. C) Bystander effect. D) Social loafing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Compliance. 47. The issue of racial profiling has been a topic in the United States for many years, and it was particularly widespread after the events of September 11, 2001. When an individual engages in profiling and assumes that one person must possess certain qualities because of their race or ethnicity, (s)he is engaging in ..... A) Attributing. B) Discrimination. C) Social loafing. D) Stereotyping. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stereotyping. 48. Which of the following factors does NOT facilitate group formation? A) Similarity. B) Competition. C) Proximity. D) Common motives. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Competition. 49. What did Ash find about group size? A) Increasing group size had no effect on conformity. B) Conformity kept increasing with group size. C) Conformity increased with group size but only to a point. D) Conformity decreased as group size increased. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conformity kept increasing with group size. 50. When our behavior changes because we're afraid of how the group will react A) Normative Social Influence. B) Conformity. C) Cultural Dimension. D) Social Norm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Normative Social Influence. 51. What is the main focus of the Minimal Group Paradigm experiments? A) Examining groupthink. B) Studying intergroup behavior. C) Analyzing social loafing. D) Understanding group dynamics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Studying intergroup behavior. 52. A car sale when the salesperson quotes a low price for the basic car, but then tacks on options, extended warranties, service packages, etc. to end in a much higher price tag A) Foot in the door. B) Door in the face. C) Low balling. D) That's not all techniqe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Low balling. 53. Johnny failed his Physics test, he thought that it was because he wasn't lucky enough and the questions were bad. What factor best explains Johnny's thinking? A) Internal Locus of Control. B) Obedience. C) Unanimity. D) External Locus of Control. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) External Locus of Control. 54. Which best describes a dispositional explanation of obedience? A) When people act on behalf of somebody else in an agentic state. B) Internal characteristics that lead them to be more or less likely to follow the orders of an authority figure. C) Social peer pressure associated with compliance, like in Asch's study. D) External situations that can impact how obedient somebody will be towards authority. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Internal characteristics that lead them to be more or less likely to follow the orders of an authority figure. 55. This theory states that conflict arises when there is competition over resources A) Realistic Conflict Theory. B) Social Identity Theory. C) Resource Conflict Theory. D) Scarcity Theory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Realistic Conflict Theory. 56. Which of the following statements best describes normative social influence? A) Going along with a group of people because we want to be liked by them. B) Going along with a group of people because we don't know what we're doing. C) Going along with other people because we accept their views. D) Going along with other people even though we don't agree. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Going along with a group of people because we want to be liked by them. 57. What year was Ash's original study A) 1951. B) 1963. C) 1851. D) 1863. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1951. 58. Following the instructions or orders of an authority figure. A) Central Route of Persuasion. B) Obedience. C) Mere Exposure Effect. D) Conformity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Obedience. 59. What percentage of participants in Stanley Milgram's study on obedience and authority continued to administer 450-volt shocks at the insistence of the authority figure? A) 50%. B) 15%. C) 65%. D) 75%. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 65%. 60. Which one of the following is not a stage of group formation? 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