Related Mcqs:

1. Research by Festinger and colleagues demonstrated that when people were paid $1 for their participation in a dull task, they were more favourably to the dull task compared to people whowere paid $20. Which theory was put forth to explain why people alter their true attitudes to match their past or actual behaviour?

   A. Attribution theory
   B. Actor-observer effect
   C. Cognitive dissonance theory
   D. Theory of planned behaviour
   E. Social learning theory

2. 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

3. Which of the following definition of important terms within the behavioural component of attitude structure is ?

   A. Counter-attitudinal advocacy involves presenting an attitude or opinion, within a role-play context, which opposes the person’s initial attitude.
   B. Cognitive dissonance theory describes tension how prople may feel an aversive tension when their behaviour is inconsistent with their attitude, and in order to reduce their discomfort will change their behaviour to be consistent with their attitude.
   C. Self-perception theory indicates that people may guess their own attitude from the behaviour towards the attitude object. particularly when they can see no external reasons for the behaviour.
   D. Self-perception processes occur when people perform a behaviour that strongly contradicts their initial attitude.

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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.

7. Once development and strengthened through use schemas become integrated structures. Which of the following statements relating to the relationship between schemas and new information is also accurate?

   A. Well development schemas change readily when faced with disconfirming evidence.
   B. The idea of exceptions to the rule is consistent with the sub-typing model model of stereotype change.
   C. In the book-keeping model disconfirming instances of the stereotype are relegated to ‘exceptional’ sub-categories largely intact.
   D. The conversion model proposes that there is fine-tuning of a schema with each new piece of information.

8. According to McGuire’s(1969) information-processing approach to persuasion, a message will elicit the desired behaviour only if it succeeded at six stages. But which of the options below is NOT one of these stages?

   A. Attention stage
   B. Retention stage
   C. Yielding stage
   D. Fielding stage

9. What are the specific qualities of schemas that make them useful for organizing our experiences and information in the social world?

   A. Schemas preserve cognitive resources
   B. Schemas facilitate recall of information
   C. Schemas are based on exopectations and prior experience
   D. Schemas can cue emotions
   E. All of the above

10. 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.