Deck 3: Social Psychology and Research Methodology

Question 1

Attention ,encoding and retrieval are basic processes of?

A)reasoning
B)creativity
C)social thought
D)none of the above

Answer 1

social thought

Question 2

……….. refers to the processes through which we recover information from memory

A)attention
B)encoding
C)retrieval
D)observation

Answer 2

retrieval

Question 3

The bias in which we overlook risks and expect things to turn out well is known as

A)optimistic bias
B)counter factual thinking
C)pessimistic bias
D)planning fallacy

Answer 3

optimistic bias

Question 4

announced schedules for public works (e.g., new roads, airports, bridges, stadiums) that have no chance of being met is best explained by

A)counter factual thinking
B)optimistic bias
C)planning fallacy
D)magical thinking

Question 5

………… is the tendency to imagine other outcomes in a situation than the ones that actually occurred

A)counter factual thinking
B)optimistic bias
C)planning fallacy
D)magical thinking

Question 6

I got up on the left side of the bed today; therefore it will rain- is an example of

A)belief
B)optimistic bias
C)planning fallacy
D)magical thinking

Question 7

Terror management is a pausible explanation of which bias among the following

A)counter factual thinking
B)optimistic bias
C)planning fallacy
D)magical thinking

Question 8

Which among below is not an error of social cognition

A)schema
B)optimistic bias
C)planning fallacy
D)magical thinking

Question 9

In ABC triad what does C stands for ?

A)culture
B)cognition
C)coperation
D)none of the above

Question 10

In ABC triad what does A stands for ?

A)aggression
B)affect
C)altruism
D)none of the above

Question 11

Experiment of norman triplett was on?

A)social loafing
B)social facilitation
C)conformity
D)obedience

Question 12

Norman triplett"S study on social facilitation was a …………study

A)correlational
B)observational
C)experimental
D)qualitative

Question 13

Which among below disciplins are associated with social psychology?

A)cognitive psychology
B)personality psychology
C)clinical psychology
D)all of the above

Question 14

The field which the structure, function, growth, origin, and evolution of living things is called

A)biology
B)social psychology
C)neurology
D)structuralism

Question 15

Field exclusively examines the concept of culture, and specifically the role of culture in influencing people's attitudes and behavior.

A)anthropology
B)evolution
C)sociology
D)social psychology

Question 16

The group which doesn't receive any treatment in experimental method is termed as

A)experimental group
B)control group
C)confounding group
D)none of the above

Question 17

The variable which is manipulated in an experimental research is called

A)dependent variable
B)independent variable
C)extraneous variable
D)continuos variable

Question 18

The variable which is measured in an experiment is called

A)dependent variable
B)independent variable
C)extraneous variable
D)continuos variable

Question 19

Variable other than independent variable which makes changes in dependent variable is called

A)control variable
B)continuos variable
C)confounding variable
D)internal variable

Question 20

----------- is a standardised, planned, and systematic approach to objectively observe and record behavior

A)survey
B)experiment
C)observation
D)record

Question 21

Which among below are a type of observation?

A)participant
B)naturalistic
C)structured
D)all of the above

Question 22

Observation in which researcher is not involved with participants is called

A)naturalistic
B)participant
C)non participant
D)unstructured

Question 23

A technique which involves observing involves studying the spontaneous behavior of participants in natural surroundings is

A)controlled
B)naturalistic
C)participant
D)none of the above

Question 24

When , a researchers ask large numbers of people to respond to questions about their attitudes or behavior. It is

A)survey method
B)experimental
C)observation
D)correlation

Question 25

The term ________ refers to a tendency for one event to be associated with changes in the other

A)relation
B)correlation
C)association
D)dependency