Whose theory of ‘cognitive dissonance’ received acclaim in the ’60’s?

Related Mcqs:

1. Whose theory of ‘cognitive dissonance’ received acclaim in the ’60’s?

   A. Festinger
   B. Taylor
   C. Jensen
   D. Lorenz

2. Experiments based on cognitive dissonance theory have examined the relationship between behavioural compliance and attitude change. Which one of the following conclusions can be drawn from these experiments?

   A. Behavioural compliance never leads to attitude change
   B. The lesser the inducement for compliance, the more the attitude change
   C. The greater the inducement for compliance the more the attitude change
   D. Behavioural compliance always leads to attitude change

3. Theory of cognitive dissonance is offered by ____________?

   A. Skinner
   B. Bandura
   C. Festinger
   D. None of these

4. Cognitive dissonance theory predicts than after people engage in counter attitudinal behavior, they will _________?

   A. convince themselves they really didn’t perform the behavior
   B. change their attitude to make it more consistent with the behavior
   C. change their attitude to make it less consistent with their behavior
   D. do nothing

5. When a child modifies an existing cognitive schema to make it compatible with the cognitive aspects of an incoming stimulus, the process is called _____________?

   A. assimilation
   B. adaptation
   C. conservation
   D. accommodation

6. Which of the following is true of personal construct theory? 1: George Kelly developed personal construct theory to examine how individuals view the world. 2: Personal construct theory portrays people as victims of unconscious desires and impulses. 3: Personal construct theory does not try to locate the individual on the personality theorists, dimensions. 4: Kelly basically took the view that we are all artists.

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

7. A theory that children develop a cognitive framework reflecting the beliefs of their society concerning characteristics and roles of males and females, and affecting the processing of new social information is known as:

   A. Gender identity theory
   B. Gender schema theory
   C. Gender constancy
   D. sex role theory

8. The stage of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development occurs during adolescence and refers to the ability to reason about abstract concepts and principles and evaluate issues in the broader social environment?

   A. formal-operational
   B. concrete-operational
   C. sensorimotor
   D. preoperational

9. Always having been a good student, lrving is confident that he will do well in his psychology course. According to Bandura’s cognitive theory, lrving would be said to have:

   A. strong feelings of self-efficacy
   B. a sense of superiority
   C. strong feelings of self-esteem
   D. strong defense mechanisms

10. Which of the following is not one of the criticisms of Piaget’s theory of cognitive development?

    A. Piaget may have underestimated the cognitive skills of children in some areas
    B. Piaget may have underestimate the influence of cultural factors on cognitive development
    C. The theory does not clearly address the issue of individual differences in development
    D. Evidence for the theory is based on children’s answer to