A. Brandon agrees to his friend’s request to help her move
B. Andrew’s mom helps him build a birdfeeder
C. Lester becomes more nervous when speaking to a large audience
D. Sarah runs the mile much faster when she runs against someone
Related Mcqs:
- Social facilitation refers to an increase in dominant responses in the presence of others of the same species, leading to:
A. Improved performance on both well-learned/easy tasks and poorly learned/difficult tasks
B. Improved performance on well-learned/easy tasks and deterioration in performance on poorly learned/difficult tasks
C. Deterioration in performance on well-learned/easy tasks and improved performance on poorly learned/difficult tasks
D. Deterioration in performance on both well-learned/easy tasks and poorly learned/difficult tasks - According to Zajonc’s social facilitation model, what factor facilitates the expression or inhibition of dominant responses?
A. The task performed
B. Prior experience
C. Presence of others
D. Group identity - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Which of the following best explains why sociologists have moved away from defining the family as a monolithic social institution?
A. it does not include childless families
B. it does not include same- sex families
C. it does not include extended family
D. all of the above - According to Lakoff, metaphors have a significant influence in how we think and understand our social worlds, Which of the following examples below is not an example of metaphor?
A. A good book is like a good meal
B. Necessity is the mother of invention
C. When Helen heard the news, she almost had a meltdown
D. There was considerable political fallout from the scandal - 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 - 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
