Most of the social psychological research on attitude change has been generated by theories concerning
a) Consistency in attitudes and behavior
b) Cognitive dissonance
c) Self-perception
d) Attribution
e) None of these
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When we receive mixed information about a person, we tend to base our impression on the information that is
a) Favorable
b) Unfavorable
c) Received first
d) Received last
e) None of these
Trail theory has been criticized on the ground that
a) Traits may be highly dependent on the situation
b) Moderator variable are often very influential
c) They often do not specify how traits are organized within the personality
d) All of the (a), (b) and (c)
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In Freud’s theory of personality
a) The ego obeys the reality principle
b) The id operates by secondary process thinking
c) The super-ego obeys the pleasure principle
d) The ego operates by primary process thinking
e) None of these
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The ability to focus on stimuli in which we are interested while resisting distracting stimuli is called
a) Concentrated attending
b) Stimulus focusing
c) Selective attention
d) Structured perceiving
e) None of these
The view that we are born with the ability to perceive the way we do it held by:
a) Sensory psychologists
b) Nativists
c) Empiricists
d) Contemporary psychologists
e) None of these
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When we look at a distant object, we usually judge its size by
a) Object size
b) Perspective size
c) A compromise between object size and perspective size
d) Retinal size
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Psychology has been defined by psychologists as
a) The study of behavior
b) The study of mental activity
c) The science that studies behavior and mental process
d) None of these
e) All of these
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Presence of others may interfere with performance due to:
a) Social inhabitation
b) Social loafing
c) Distraction
d) All of these
e) None of these
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Which of the following condition is not associated with prolonged sensory deprivation
a) Inability to concentrate
b) A satisfying-relaxed feeling
c) Hallucinations
d) Confusion
e) None of these
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