NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, etc.), GATE, CUET, Olympiads etc.: Psychology MCQs (Practice_Test 63 of 68)
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- Which one of the following clusters can be best considered as components of attitudes?
- Ability, aptitude and expressional components
- Sympathy, interest and ambition oriented components
- Cognitive, emotional and action oriented components
- Intelligence, personality and creativity oriented components
- Attitudes primarily develop through the process of
- need satisfaction
- valence acquisition
- externalization of internal beliefs
- conformity
- The method of discovering and evaluation group structure. Social status and personality traits by measuring the acceptance and/or rejection between individuals in a group is known as
- sociography
- biometry
- sociomeiry
- psychometry
- Which one of the following statements correctly explains the meaning of sleeper effect?
- A person with high credibility will produce more attitude change in others over a period of time
- A person with high credibility will produce less attitude change in others over a period of time
- A person with low credibility will produce less attitude change in others over a period of time
- A person with low credibility will produce more attitude change in others over a period of time
- Which one of the following theories explains consistency in attitude formation and change?
- Balance theory
- Commitment theory
- Conditioning theory
- Evaluation theory
- Attitude change in more effective or long lasting when the excess of communication involves
- central route processing
- information processing
- peripheral route processing
- integrative processing
- Which one of the following pairs of attitude measuring techniques and types of scaling NOT correctly matched?
- Match Item 1: Cumulative scaling
- Match Item 2: Guttmann
- Match Item 1: Summated rating
- Match Item 2: Likert
- Match Item 1: Equal appearance interval
- Match Item 2: Thurstone
- Match Item 1: Social distance scale
- Match Item 2: Osgood
- Which one of the following correctly brings out the difference between Thurstone type attitude scale and Likert type attitude scale?
- Uses simple sentence-Uses complex sentence
- Contains fewer items-Contains larger number of items
- Easy to use-Difficult to use
- Its scores can be interpreted independently-interpreted independently
- If a highly valued communicator makes a positive statement about a negatively values situation, the listener will tend to feel more positively towards the situation and less positively towards the communicator. This predication is the main characteristic of
- Reactance theory
- Congruity theory
- Balance theory
- Inoculation theory
- Consider the following factors:
- Rigid personality organization
- Enforced group norm
- Distorted information supplied by the group Leader
- Beliefs in closed-groups
- The correct serial order in which these factors affect the formation of undesirable social attitudes is
- 4,1, 2,3
- 1,4, 2,3
- 4,1, 3,2
- 1,4, 3,2
- Match List I (Functions of attitude) with List II (Behaviours/Action tendencies) and select the correct answer:
Table Supporting: NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, Etc.) , GATE, CUET, Olympiads Etc. : Psychology MCQs (Practice_Test 63 of 68) List-I List-II - Adjustment
- Value-expressive
- Ego-defensive
- Knowledge
- Provides basis for acceptance of any opinion
- Protects sell images
- Provides basis for understanding
- Adapts to environment
- A
- B
- C
- D
- 4
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 1
- 3
- 2
- 1
- 4
- 2
- 3
- 1
- 4
- 3
- 2
- Generation of ideas in a group through noncritical discussion is known as
- debate
- brainstonning
- brainwashing
- lecturing
- Connotative meanings are best derived through studying
- lexical markings
- speech patterns
- semantic differentials
- morphemes
- After handling many complaints, a salesperson becomes very skilled at identifying problems and generating solutions that satisfy all concerned. This most clearly illustrates the concept of
- functioning fixity
- functional solution
- practicable solution
- learning set
- Which one of the following forms of communication networks will be most useful for dealing with complete tasks?
- chain
- cross
- Y shape
- pentagon