This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 12 > Class 12 Psychology Chapter 6 Attitude And Social Cognition – Quiz 13 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Psychology Chapter 6 Attitude And Social Cognition Quiz 13 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. Milgram's shock experiment was about A) Obedience. B) Conformity. C) Compliance. D) Social facilitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Obedience. 5. Which is NOT a part of the Tri-component model of attitudes? A) Cognitive. B) Behavioural. C) Emotional. D) Affective. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Emotional. 6. 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. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Social facilitation. 7. Status refers to: A) A person's position of hierarchy in a group. B) Whether they are married or not. C) The shared purpose of the group. D) The role the person plays in life. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A person's position of hierarchy in a group. 8. You took one look at Elijah and thought he was bright, caring, and understanding. Your behaviors subtly brought out those qualities in Elijah. How can this best be explained? A) Self-fulfilling prophecy. B) Fundamental attribution error. C) Confirmation bias. D) Actor-observer bias. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Self-fulfilling prophecy. 9. Which of the following is NOT an assumption of Social Cognition? A) Self-esteem guides human behavior. B) People to seek causes of human behavior. C) People constantly want change. D) People are cognitive misers. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) People constantly want change. 10. Name for any mental process involved with knowing, awareness, perception, remembering, reasoning, judgment, or problem-solving. A) Cognition. B) Attribution. C) Theory of Cognitive Miserness. D) Disposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cognition. 11. What is social cognition? A) Effort to understand the social world. B) Effort to avoid the social world. C) Effort to complicate the social world. D) Effort to ignore the social world. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Effort to understand the social world. 12. What does a person perceive in order to evaluate another's 'warmth' stereotype A) Status. B) Disgust. C) Personal evaluations. D) Competition for resources. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Competition for resources. 13. Category of people who you think you belong to & compare yourself to. A) Social Comparisons. B) Reference Groups. C) Downward Social Comparison. D) Relative Deprivation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reference Groups. 14. A distortion of thinking involving a tendency for people to perceive information through a filter of personal experience or preferences A) Cognition. B) Attribution Error. C) Cognitive Bias. D) Social Cognition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cognitive Bias. 15. Any error made when attempting to explain a cause of a behavior or event A) Attribution Bias. B) Cognition. C) Self-Serving Bias. D) None of the answers listed here is correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Attribution Bias. 16. Which of the following statements best describes discrimination? A) Discrimination involves positive action to support someone in a minority group. B) Discrimination involves negative action against someone in a minority group. C) Discrimination involves either positive or negative action towards someone in a minority group. D) Discrimination involves stereotyping all individuals in a minority group whilst overlooking individual differences. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Discrimination involves either positive or negative action towards someone in a minority group. 17. The tri-component model proposes that all three components must be present before it can be said that an attitude exists. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 18. This occurs when a person changes behavior as a result of another person asking or directing that person to change. A) Compliance. B) Obedience. C) Conformity. D) Social influence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Compliance. 19. I enjoy Psychology. I think it helps me learn useful information about how people think and behave. I will continue this subject in Unit 3-4. 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 Unit 3-4. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) I think it helps me learn useful information about how people think and behave. 20. Social thought is not always completely rational because ..... A) Thinking about the social world requires effort. B) Rational thought cannot completely overcome the effects of schemas. C) Social thought is always automatic and heuristic. D) Base rates are frequently ignored. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thinking about the social world requires effort. 21. Which of the following descriptions is an example of a dispositional attribution? A) He smoked a cigarette because other people were smoking. B) He smoked a cigarette because alcohol was not available. C) He smoked a cigarette because he enjoys smoking. D) He smoked a cigarette because he was offered one. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) He smoked a cigarette because he enjoys smoking. 22. Which component of attitude towards recycling involves feeling proud and responsible when sorting recyclables from trash? A) Affective. B) Behavioural. C) Cognitive. D) Directive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Affective. 23. Those things that are easier to recall tend to have a greater impact on subsequent judgments and decisions. Thisfact is known as ..... A) Evaluative thinking. B) He availability heuristic. C) The base rate heuristic. D) Automatic priming. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He availability heuristic. 24. True or false.Automatic thinking is rooted in schemas. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 25. The repeated exposure theory proposes that simple, positive repeated encounters, are all that is needed to produce a positive attitude. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. 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