Which is true of social stereotypes?

Related Mcqs:

1. Stereotypes are:

   A. Special types of schemas that are part of people’s shared cultural background
   B. Widely held beliefs that people have certain characteristics because of their membership in a particular group
   C. equivalent prejudice
   D. both a and b

2. Leyton suggested that members are symbolic of structural discontent – at different times in history a (social) class comes under treat from another (social) class under treat from another social class and feel dissatisfaction. What did he call this?

   A. Depressive
   B. Over- controlled repressors
   C. Paranoid- aggression
   D. Homicidal protest

3. Which theory of social change would predict that all societies eventually experience the same kinds of social changes?

   A. functionalist
   B. conflict
   C. unilateral evolutionary
   D. evolutionary

4. In most social settings, the theory of social attraction of which one of the following appears most applicable?

   A. Winch
   B. Webster
   C. Finch
   D. Newcomb

5. 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

6. Which one of the following statements are true of the Wason selection, or four-card problem (Wason,1966)?
   1. The Wason Selection Task is a good task because it produces identical results in concrete and abstract forms
   2. In general, concrete versions of the task are more difficult to think about than uncluttered abstract versions.
   3. Although the task is one of pure reasoning some concrete versions are easier because of how we think in certain social situations.
   4. People typically pick one card correctly, but pick an inappropriate one as the second choice in the original version of the task.

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

7. Which one of the following statements about social support is true?

   A. Social support in a broad social network impacts positively on health and stress
   B. Social support in small groups helps one resist pressures to comply with an outside majority or to be obey an immoral authority
   C. Both a & b
   D. Neither a nor b

8. The next defines social psychology as the scientific study of how people______one another.

   A. understand, predict, and control
   B. understand, feel about, and behave toward
   C. think about, influence, and related to
   D. observe, understand, and communicate with

9. Social psychologists have arranged for people to drop coins or pencils in elevators in order to study:

   A. the mere exposure effect
   B. the foot- in- the- door phenomenon
   C. the bystander effect
   D. social facilitation

10. According to Karl Mar, the_______ are the social class who own the means for producing wealth in industrial society.

    A. proletariat
    B. capitalists
    C. Bourgeoisie
    D. communists