Psychology Mcqs — Test 60
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Question 1
The three-component model of attitude formation includes:
Question 2
Which of the following definition of important terms within the behavioural component of attitude structure is ?
Question 3
Research by Fishbein and Ajzen has indicated that in order to demonstrate strong links between attitudes and behaviours, an assessment of several behaviours relevent to the attitude being measured is necessary.This type of assessment is referred to as the:
Question 4
Research by Festinger and colleagues demonstrated that when people were paid $1 for their participation in a dull task, they were more favourably to the dull task compared to people whowere paid $20. Which theory was put forth to explain why people alter their true attitudes to match their past or actual behaviour?
Question 5
According to the theory of planned behaviour, what factors influence people’s intentions to act in specific ways?
Question 6
According to McGuire’s(1969) information-processing approach to persuasion, a message will elicit the desired behaviour only if it succeeded at six stages. But which of the options below is NOT one of these stages?
Question 7
Although the jones-Davis (19610) and Kelley (1967) models of attribution view the social perceiver as a rational person empirical research has discovered present biases in the attributional processes. Which of these is NOT one of those presistent biases?
Question 8
According to Kelley’s covariation model of attribution, if Sylvia always laughs at comedians, then her behaviour would be described as having:
Question 9
How is the ultimate attribution error(UAE) different from the other pervasive attributional biases such as the fundamental attribution error, the self-serving bias and the actor-observer effect?
Question 10
We know that before we can apply a scheme to a social object, we have to categorize it. But which of the below statements about categorization is NOT the case?