PSY403 Midterm and Final Term Past Papers Quizzes Mega File

MUHAMMAD IMRAN PSY403 Social Psychology · PAST MCQs AND QUESTIONS · FINAL TERM · QUIZ NO 1 · QUIZ NO 2 · QUIZ NO 3 GRAND QUIZ MID TERM · FINAL TERM · FINAL TERM PAST SOLVED PAPER · PSY403 Social Psychology · QUIZ NO 1

1. A presumed cause must occur before the presumed effect is known as what?________ ___________________________________________________Covariation of relationship
2. Which of the following is an organized system of ideas that seeks to explain why two or more events are related _______________________________________________________ theory
3. In an experiment when the researcher can identify a given person’s response but not to do so publicly ________________________________________________________ Confidentiality
4. Which of the following justified when each and every element has an equal chance of being included __________________________________________________ Probability samples
5. Which of the following is defined as a group of people who are selected to participate in a given study?________________________________________________________________ Sample
6. Which of the following hormones makes male more aggressive then females?__ Testosterone
7. Which of the following independent variable Federman (1994-1998) used in his research?____- __________________________________________________________________TV violence
8. Which of the following is NOT a reason why a random sample is important?_____________
9. Which of the following is not the area of interest in social psychology?_____________ Doing

10. Which of the following is the abbreviation of the IRB? ______Institutional review boards 11. “How do we know when someone is lying or telling truth” is an example of:_______________ ___________________________________________________________Person perception 12. Who wrote the third book on social psychology? ________________________Floyd Allport 13. Which one is not a characteristic of empirical research?______________ Not well planned 14. 15. 16. Which of the following is not a step in the research process?__________ Subjective needs 17. Well-planned, internally consistent and replicable are characteristics of which of the following?___________________________________________________ Empirical research 18. In which year US government established Institutional Review boards for research involving human participants?________________________________________________________ 1974 19. Which of the following research’s aim is to simply increase knowledge about social behavior,

20. the following levels?____________ _________________________Individual level explanations 21. Which of the following variable controlled by the researcher in an experiment?_______ _____________________________________________________________________Independent variable 22. Which of the following best defines that a student is given candy and soft drinks along with words of praise for a superb performance?_____________________________ Reinforcement 23. The process of selecting a subset of a population for a survey is known as what__ Sampling 24. 25.

26. “whether early deprivation can cause a deterioration in IQ” is an example of which goal of research?___________________________________________________________ Prediction 27.

28. Which of the following transient states of arousal that direct our behavior________ Emotions 29.

Social psychology is the scientific study of : _______________________________________

__________________________how people relate to and are changed by other people 30. A possible topic studied by a social psychologist is : ___________________all of the above 31.

Which factor would a social psychologist emphasize in explaining why a person commits a

violent crime?__________________having recently experienced a frustrating situation 32. The belief that adult behavior can be traced to unresolved psychological conflicts from one's childhood is a hallmark of: _________________________________________gestalt psychology 33. Why might our informal observations of social life lead us to wrong conclusions? ____________________________________________________________________all of the above 34. Although much of their research was conducted with rats and pigeons, _____________ believed that the same principles applied to humans. _________________________________behaviorists 35.

Which name is most associated with the theory of behaviorism? _____________B.F. Skinner

36. Alana is thrown out of a basketball game because of her aggressive behavior. Which type of theorist would explain her behavior as a result of powerful inborn impulses or drives? _________________________________________________________a psychoanalytic theorist 37. Which type of theorist would argue that people perceive situations or events as "dynamic wholes"? ____________________________________________________a gestalt psychologist 38. Whenever Carlos asks a question in his psychology class, his professor nods her head and smiles at him in response. Carlos' frequent questions can be explained as a result of: _____________________________________________________________________reinforcement 39. You can experience greater apprehension when you realize that you are the object of other’s______.______________________________________________________________Attention 40.

Virtual reality creates a virtual research environment using a ______Computer Simulation

41. _________ is a statistical technique to determine whether specific variable have important effects across studies. __________________________________________________Meta analysis 42. Relationship between two variables is described by the statistical measure known as _________. __________________________________________________Correlation Coefficient 43. ________ are structured sets of questions given to a group of people to measure their attitude, beliefs and behavioral tendencies. ______________________________________________ Surveys 44. _______ observation is a form of observational method that investigates behavior in its natural environment. _____________________________________________________________Naturalistic 45.

In Experimental Research manipulated variable is called __________. Independent variable

46.

A theory is an organized form of ________._______________________________________ Ideas

47. _______ is a group of people who are selected to participate in a given study _______Sample 48.

Frontal lobes are involved in the coordination of _______. ___________________Movements

49. Leonard Berkowitz explains how ______________________ is often triggered by circumstances that arouse negative feelings. _______________________________________Hostile aggression 50.

The most common treatment is punishment; ultimate punishment is _____________. ___Death

51. ______________ is a form of helping in which the ultimate goal of the helper is to increase one’s own welfare. ________________________________________________________Egoistic helping 52. ________________debriefing with the participants indicated that some participants who did not intervene claimed that they were either unsure of what had occurred or did not think that the situation was very serious.__________________________________________Post experimental 53. Two or more people, who interact with one another, share common goals, are somehow interdependent, and recognize that they belong to a ___________. _____________________Group 54. _______________in individual output when performers’ efforts are pooled and so cannot be individually judged. ________________________________________Group-induced reduction 55. Christina Demetriou and Andrew Silke established a _____________to determine whether people who visited to gain access to legal material will also try to gain access to illegal and pornographic material. _______________________________________________________Web site 56. Diener indicates that the crucial cognitive factor in deindividuation is a lack of _______ ________________________________________________ ____. Self awareness 57. The _____________ stipulates that people should help only when they believe that others deserve assistance. ____________________________________________Norm of social justice 58. _______________theory suggests that aggressive thoughts are linked together in an associative network in memory. _______________________________________Cognitive neo-association

1. Which of the following is an advantage of private self consciousness?_ improves relationships
2. MRI is an abbreviation of which of the following brain imaging techniques?________________ _______________________________________________ _ Magnetic resonance imaging
3. Who designed or created the shock generator?________________________ Stanley Milgram
4. A presumed cause must occur before the presumed effect is known as what?_______________ __ ___________________________________________________ Time-order relationship
5. Which of the following scale will be used if we want to study the preference of coeducation in our
6. In which of the following developmental stage the self becomes critically important as a basis for
7. Likert scale was introduced in which of the following year?__________________________ 1932
8. Who resolved the controversy of applied and pure research by concluding that “no action without research, no research without action”.____________________________________ Kurt Lewin
9. Court records, newspaper, census and government documents are example of:____________ ______________________________________________________ _ _ Archival information
10. Who gave the Covariation model of attribution?________________ _________HAROLD Kelly
11. Which of the following refers to the tendency to underestimate how common one’s own desirable traits and abilities are in the general population?_______________ False-uniqueness belief
12. Attitude is positive or negative evaluation of an object, this definition is given by:____ Schuman
13. Which of the following sampling technique involves selecting respondents primarily on the basis of their availability and willingness to respond?______________________ Accidental sampling
14. A specific vitamin can extend the life expectancy of humans was the subject of interest for Ali’s research study. The dependent variable for this study will be:_______________ Life-expectancy
15. Which of following is true when each member of a population has an equal chance of being selected?________________________________ an equal probability selection method
16. If a salesperson is nice to us, we don’t necessarily assume he or she is intrinsically friendly. This
17. A research psychologist manipulates the level of fear among participants and see the effect on the participant's reaction time. In this study, reaction time is the known as what?_________
18. Did you kill your boyfriend is a ___________. ___________________________ Vague question
19. Which of the following traits are commonly used in forming impressions?_________ Personality
20. People with unstable __________ become angry when challenged.____________ self-esteem
21. Which of the following part of the brain involves in planning skills and abstract thinking?__

_______________________________________________________________________frontal lobes

22. Which of the following refers that people tend to attribute their own behavior to external causes but that of others to internal?___________________________________ actor-observer bias
23. According to LaPierre study in 1934, behaviour is specific but attitude is ____________ general
24. Which of the followings refers to the idea that greater attitude-behavior consistency is the result of more accessible attitude?____________________________________ Attitude accessibility