False beliefs that are held even when the facts contradict them are called:

Related Mcqs:

1. Which of the following are FALSE regarding the role of theories in psychology?
   1. Facts have to be integrated in terms of theoretical explanations
   2. Theories are statements of what rather than why
   3. Theories are capable of accounting for multiple facts, but cannot predict what might happen in novel situations
   4. All of the above

   A. 1 & 2
   B. 1 & 3
   C. 2 & 3
   D. 4

2. A systematic study of facts according to a reliable and correct method of study is called a __________?

   A. Scientific Study
   B. Biological Study
   C. Methodology
   D. Social Technique

3. People are likely to discount information that is inconsistent with their stereotyped beliefs. This can cause a:

   A. Fundamental attribution error
   B. Perpetuating stereotype
   C. Behavioral confirmation
   D. Self- serving bias

4. People are likely to discount information that is inconsistent with their stereotyped beliefs. This can cause a_________?

   A. Fundamental attribution error
   B. Perpetuating stereotype
   C. Behavioral confirmation
   D. Self- serving bias

5. Arturo believes that most young women from California are extremely good looking and that extremely good- looking women are usually selfish and egotistical. His beliefs are example of __________?

   A. ingroup bias
   B. stereotypes
   C. sexual discrimination
   D. mirror- image perceptions

6. Organized patterns of beliefs and behavior centered on basic social needs:

   A. Culture lag
   B. Social mobility
   C. Social change
   D. Social institutions

7. A theory that children develop a cognitive framework reflecting the beliefs of their society concerning characteristics and roles of males and females, and affecting the processing of new social information is known as:

   A. Gender identity theory
   B. Gender schema theory
   C. Gender constancy
   D. sex role theory

8. Education as a process embodies all those forms of activities that fit an individual for social living and that help transmit customs, laws, religious beliefs, languages of social institutions from one_____to another:

   A. Generation
   B. Person
   C. View
   D. Situation

9. Who said this? “Comparative sociology is not a particular branch of sociology, it is sociology itself, in- so- far as it ceases to be purely descriptive and aspires to account for facts.”

   A. Hegel
   B. K. Marx
   C. M. Weber
   D. E. Durkheim

10. According to_____Educational psychology is “the study of those facts and principles of psychology which help to explain and improve the process of education.

    A. Skinner Charles E.
    B. Judd
    C. Walter B.Kolsnik
    D. Peel