Related Mcqs:

1. Research by Fishbein and Ajzen has indicated that in order to demonstrate strong links between attitudes and behaviours, an assessment of several behaviours relevent to the attitude being measured is necessary.This type of assessment is referred to as the:

   A. Multiple-act criterion
   B. Multi-behaviour criterion
   C. Multi-attitude assessment
   D. Attitude-behaviour consistency
   E. None of the above

2. According to research by Petty, Cacioppo and colleagues, people will process messages most carefully, and rely less on simple cues, when what is true about the message?

   A. Message is memorable
   B. Message is high in personal relevance
   C. Message is humorous
   D. Message is low in personal relevance
   E. Message is not given by an expert source

3. Devine’s work on the activation of stereotypes demonstrated that______processing of information about people is beyond conscious awareness whereas_______processing of information about people is deliberate and conscious.

   A. Automatic; controlled
   B. Controlled; automatic
   C. Schematic; revised
   D. Subtype; evaluative

4. According to the theory of planned behaviour, what factors influence people’s intentions to act in specific ways?

   A. Attitudes towards the behaviour
   B. Subjective norms regarding the behaviour
   C. Objective norms regarding the behaviour
   D. Perceived control over performance of the behaviour
   E. a,b and d

5. Although the jones-Davis (19610) and Kelley (1967) models of attribution view the social perceiver as a rational person empirical research has discovered present biases in the attributional processes. Which of these is NOT one of those presistent biases?

   A. The fundamental attribution error.
   B. The actor-observer effect.
   C. The self-serving bias.
   D. The critical attribution error.

6. The three-component model of attitude formation includes:

   A. Cognitions, beliefs, thoughts
   B. Positive, negative, indifferent
   C. Beliefs, truths and errors
   D. Cognitions, emotions and behaviours
   E. Behaviours, intentions, emotions

7. According to Kelley’s covariation model of attribution, if Sylvia always laughs at comedians, then her behaviour would be described as having:

   A. High consistency
   B. Low distinctiveness
   C. High consensus
   D. a,b and c
   E. a and b

8. How is the ultimate attribution error(UAE) different from the other pervasive attributional biases such as the fundamental attribution error, the self-serving bias and the actor-observer effect?

   A. UAE underlies all the other biases
   B. UAE refers to attributional biases that occur at the group level
   C. UAE only applies to ingroups
   D. UAE refers to attributional biases that occur the individual level
   E. a and b

9. Identify the CORRECT statement with regard to the self-serving bias:

   A. This strength of the self-serving bias is the same across cultures
   B. We tend to attribute our success to internal factors and our failure to external factors
   C. The usual explanation for the self-serving bias relates to cognitive factors.
   D. Attributing success to external causes has been referred has been referred to as the self-enhancing bias.

10. Societally recognized mental representations of social groups and their members that include behavioural and trait charecteristics groups are referred to as_______.

    A. Role schemes
    B. Person schemas
    C. Actor-observer effects
    D. Stereotypes
    E. Biases