This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Class 12 > Class 12 Psychology Chapter 6 Attitude And Social Cognition – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Class 12 Psychology Chapter 6 Attitude And Social Cognition Quiz 8 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following is a problem with the use of self-report measures A) Socially desirable responding. B) People are capable of introspecting and accurately perceive their true attitudes. C) People always lie about how they think and feel. D) All self-report measures are highly unreliable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Socially desirable responding. 2. What is one of the functions of attitudes? A) To avoid social interactions. B) To understand the world around us. C) To confuse social groups. D) To create identity crisis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To understand the world around us. 3. What is the "halo effect" in the context of person perception? A) The tendency to judge people based on their physical appearance alone. B) The tendency to allow our overall positive impression of a person to influence our beliefs and expectations about the person in other qualities. C) The tendency to ignore positive qualities of a person. D) The tendency to focus only on negative qualities of a person. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The tendency to allow our overall positive impression of a person to influence our beliefs and expectations about the person in other qualities. 4. The three components of an attitude are A) Cognitive, internal and external. B) Behavioural, affective and external. C) Affective, behavioural and cognitive. D) Affective, behavioural and internal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Affective, behavioural and cognitive. 5. You and your classmate work on a project, and it succeeds! In describing your relative contributions to the project, you assume that your contribution is greater than your classmate's, but they assume their contribution is greater than yours. Which of the following does this illustrate? A) Self-serving bias. B) Actor/observer bias. C) False consensus effect. D) Fundamental attribution error. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Self-serving bias. 6. Bella votes for the Australian Greens party because her parents voted for them. The acquisition of Bella's attitude based on her parent's voting preferences is best explained by A) Classical conditioning. B) Social learning. C) Operant conditioning. D) Repeated exposure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Social learning. 7. Fundamental attribution error is our tendency to A) Make a basic mistake in person perception. B) Overestimate the importance of situational factors in judging ourselves. C) Overestimate the importance of personal factors in judging ourselves. D) Overestimate the importance of personal factors and underestimate the importance of situational factors in judging someone else's behaviour. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Overestimate the importance of personal factors and underestimate the importance of situational factors in judging someone else's behaviour. 8. Which is not part of the ABC model of attitudes? A) Affective. B) Behavioural. C) Adaptive. D) Cognitive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adaptive. 9. Attitudes are formed through A) Experience. B) Social factors. C) Learning. D) Observation. E) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) All of the above. 10. Jasper is an Instagram influencer. His profile is full of depictions of socially desirable content. Several companies send him free products to post on his page. The companies are taking advantage of his ..... power. A) Informational. B) Reward. C) Legitimate. D) Referent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Referent. 11. While looking through a pile of applications, Rosa decided to interview only the applicants who had a college degree even though the job did not require one. Rosa is demonstrating her ..... Attitude towards college graduates and her refusal to read the non-university graduate applications could be considered ..... A) Prejudicial; stereotypical. B) Prejudicial; discriminatory. C) Stereotypical; prejudicial. D) Discriminatory; prejudicial. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prejudicial; discriminatory. 12. Which factor BEST explains why people give up their train seat for elderly/pregnant people? A) Social reciprocity norm. B) Mood. C) All of these. D) Social responsibility norm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Social responsibility norm. 13. Our experience of an emotion is the result of the arousal we experience. This statement is consistent with: A) James-Lange Theory of Emotion. B) Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion. C) Schacter & Singers' Theory of Emotion. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) James-Lange Theory of Emotion. 14. This is the branch of psychology that studies the habits of consumers in the marketplace. A) Consumer psychology. B) Marketing. C) Advertising. D) Consumer ideology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consumer psychology. 15. True or falsePeople can make their schemas come true by the way they treat others. That's an example of embodied cognition. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 16. What type of social comparison do people use if they want a self-esteem boost? A) Downward. B) Upward. C) Lateral. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Downward. 17. ..... ARE SIMPLE WAYS OF THINKING A) ATTITUDE. B) OPINIONS. C) BEHAVIOUR. D) VALUES. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) OPINIONS. 18. First impressions are weighted more heavily than subsequent information during impression formation. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 19. In the ABC model of attitudes, which one relates to the actions? A) Affective Component. B) Behavioral Component. C) Cognitive Component. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Behavioral Component. 20. The discomfort we feel when our attitudes are not in line with our actions is called A) Attitude Adjustment. B) Behavioral Analysis. C) Cognitive dissonance. D) Self Serving Bias. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cognitive dissonance. 21. These leaders are skilled at getting group goals accomplished efficiently. A) Task-oriented. B) Relationship-oriented. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Task-oriented. 22. Can attitudes change over time? A) No. B) Yes. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No. 23. When a male employer views his female employees as a less important group, with the role of the male employees having higher value, then there is likely to be sustained prejudice because A) There is no equality of status. B) Females will use old fashioned prejudice in the workplace. C) The employer is indirectly discriminating against female employees. D) The male and female employees will not have a common goal to work toward. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) There is no equality of status. 24. People evaluate themselves in relation to others. A) Social Comparisons. B) Reference Groups. C) Downward Social Comparison. D) Relative Deprivation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Social Comparisons. 25. True or FalseAccommodation happens when we encounter opposite information. A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. 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