Related Mcqs:

1. 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.

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

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. We know that before we can apply a scheme to a social object, we have to categorize it. But which of the below statements about categorization is NOT the case?

   A. We usually employ categorians with little conscious effort.
   B. Research on categorization stems from the pioneering work of cognitive scientist Eleanor Rosch and her colleagues.
   C. The categorization of events is a more complex process than that of inanimate objects.
   D. The instances in a social category that represent the category as a whole are referred to as exemplars.

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

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.