BA Second Year (Sem 3 & 4) Psychology – Daily Revision MCQ (English Medium)
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Social psychology studies how people's thoughts, feelings and behaviour are influenced by the actual, imagined or implied presence of others. Whose classic definition is this?
Chapter 1: Introduction to Social Psychology
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Answer: C. Gordon Allport
Gordon W. Allport's definition is the standard one quoted in social psychology textbooks.The tendency to explain other people's behaviour by their personal traits while underestimating the role of the situation is called:
Chapter 3: Social Perception and Attribution
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Answer: A. Fundamental attribution error
Overrating personal (dispositional) causes and underrating situational causes when judging others is the fundamental attribution error.In the ABC model of attitudes, the letter 'A' stands for which component?
Chapter 4: Attitudes
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Answer: B. Affective
ABC = Affective (feelings), Behavioural (action tendency) and Cognitive (beliefs) components of an attitude.Which psychologist studied conformity by asking people in a group to judge the lengths of lines?
Chapter 7: Groups and Conformity
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Answer: D. Solomon Asch
In Solomon Asch's experiments, many participants gave obviously wrong answers about line lengths just to agree with the group.A salesperson first gets you to agree to a small request and later makes a bigger one. Which compliance technique is this?
Chapter 8: Social Influence: Compliance and Obedience
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Answer: C. Foot-in-the-door
Foot-in-the-door: agreeing to a small request makes people more likely to agree to a larger one later.Who introduced the concept of 'groupthink', where a close group values agreement over careful decision-making?
Chapter 10: Group Processes and Group Decision Making
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Answer: B. Irving Janis
Irving Janis described groupthink: cohesive groups suppress doubts to keep harmony and make poor decisions.The 'Bobo doll' experiments showed that children learn aggression by observing others. Who conducted them?
Chapter 12: Aggression
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Answer: A. Albert Bandura
Albert Bandura's Bobo doll studies support social learning theory: aggression is learned through observation and imitation.According to the bystander effect, as the number of people present at an emergency increases, the chance that any one person helps:
Chapter 13: Prosocial Behaviour
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Answer: C. decreases
Latané and Darley found that with more bystanders, responsibility is diffused, so each person is less likely to help.In Piaget's theory, 'object permanence' develops during which stage?
Chapter 17: Cognitive and Moral Development: Piaget and Kohlberg
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Answer: A. Sensorimotor stage
In the sensorimotor stage (birth to about 2 years) the infant learns that objects still exist when out of sight.According to Erik Erikson, the main psychosocial crisis of adolescence is:
Chapter 18: Adolescence
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Answer: D. Identity vs. role confusion
Erikson's fifth stage, in adolescence, is identity vs. role confusion: the teenager tries to form a clear sense of who they are.
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