Always having been a good student, lrving is confident that he will do well in his psychology course. According to Bandura’s cognitive theory, lrving would be said to have:

Related Mcqs:

1. A student who is quite honest turns in the paper of another student as his own. When accused of dishonesty, he says, “nowadays everybody cheats in school, but, I’m always honest.” The student is using which type of defense mechanism?

   A. compensation
   B. projection
   C. identification
   D. repression

2. Mr. Walters has many years of experience as a personal officers for a large corporation. He does not review most job applicants’ reference files because he is confident of his ability to predict their future work performance based on his direct face-to-face conversations with them. Mr. Walters’ confidence best illustrates:

   A. the interviewer illusion
   B. social leadership
   C. 360-degree feedback
   D. the halo error

3. In the 1957 Sidney Lumet film Twelve Angry Men, 12 jurors have to decide over the guilt or innocence of a young man changed with the murder of his father. At the outset, all but one of the jurors are convinced of the youth’s guilt. The lone juror (played by Henry Fond (a) actively attempts to change their minds, standing firm, committed self-confident and unwavering. One by one the other jurors change sides, until in the end they all agree that the accused in not guilty. Which form of social influence is this an example of?

   A. Conformity
   B. Minority influence
   C. Normative influence
   D. Informational influence

4. In the 1957 Sidney Lumet film Twelve Angry Men, 12 jurors have to decide over the guilt or innocence of a young man changed with the murder of his father. At the outset, all but one of the jurors are convinced of the youth’s guilt. The lone juror (played by Henry Fond (a) actively attempts to change their minds, standing firm, committed self-confident and unwavering. One by one the other jurors change sides, until in the end they all agree that the accused in not guilty. Which form of social influence is this an example of?

   A. Conformity
   B. Minority influence
   C. Normative influence
   D. Informational influence

5. According to Bandura, one is socialized by ___________?

   A. Punishment
   B. Observation
   C. Food
   D. None of these

6. According to Bandura, one is socialized by ___________?

   A. Punishment
   B. Observation
   C. Food
   D. None of these

7. According to Bandura and Walters, all of the following processes are involved in observational learning except __________________?

   A. attention process
   B. motivation process
   C. reproduction process
   D. chaining process

8. According to Piaget, a child who is confident that the quantity of milk is a glass does not change when it is poured into a glass of different shape is probably _________________?

   A. between 3 and 5 years old
   B. able to conserve volume
   C. in the preoperational stage of cognitive development
   D. engaging in egocentric patterns of play

9. Rais just came back from seeing a neurologist. Rais tells you that he will be having a test in which images of his brain will be recorded after radioactive chemicals have been injected into his chemicals have been injected into his bloodstream. However, Rais can’t remember the actual name of the test. it appears that his neurologist is planning:

   A. an electroencephalograph (EEG) recording
   B. a positron emission tomography (PET) scan
   C. a computerized tomography(CT) scan
   D. a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan

10. If psychology can be defined as the science of behavior and the mind, why are the data in psychology always drawn from behavior?

    A. behavior can be influenced by physiology and the mind cannot
    B. behavior can be influenced by the environment and the mind cannot
    C. behavior can be observed and the mind cannot
    D. All of above