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Social Psychology (PSY403)

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

Objective Questions

  1. In an experimental study of the effects of failure on self-esteem, self-esteem is known as what?

    1. Controlled condition
    2. Independent variable
    3. Correlational condition
    4. Dependent variable
  2. What name is given to a person who is appearently a normal participant in the experiment but who in fact plays a presdribed role assigned by the experimenter?

    1. Accomplice
    2. Assistant
    3. Confidant
    4. Confederate
  3. Which of the following event led to research on suicide bombing?

    1. 7/11
    2. 9/11
    3. 8/11
    4. 11/11
  4. To determine whether changing one variable (like education) will produce changes in another (like income), we need to conduct which type of research method?

    1. Correlational research
    2. Archival research
    3. Observational research
    4. Laboratory research
  5. Which of the following is defined as a group of people who are selected to participate in a given study?

    1. Population
    2. Public
    3. Sample
    4. Individuals
  6. Which of the following is not a step in the research process?

    1. Choose a research design
    2. Evaluate the ethics
    3. Collect data
    4. Subjective needs
  7. 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?

    1. Independent variable
    2. Experimental variable
    3. Correlational condition
    4. Dependent variable
  8. Which of the following research's aim is to simply increase knowledge about social behavior, knowledge for knowledge's sake?

    1. Basic research
    2. Applied research
    3. Advance research
    4. Pilot research
  9. Which of the following is not the area of interest in social psychology?

    1. Thinking
    2. Evaluating
    3. Doing
    4. Interacting
  10. Which of the following is the abbreviation of the IRB?

    1. Industrial review boards
    2. Institutional review bill
    3. Interview review bill
    4. Interview review board
  11. Which of the following are individual evaluative responses?

    1. Beliefs
    2. Emotions
    3. Schemas
    4. Attitude
  12. Who designed or created the shock generator?

    1. Stanley Hall
    2. Norman Triplet
    3. William McDougall
    4. Stanley Milgram
  13. Who wrote the third book on social psychology?

    1. Edward Ross
    2. Norman Triplet
    3. William McDougall
    4. Floyd Allport
  14. ________ is voluntary participation with full understanding of the possible risk factors involved in any research or experiment.

    1. Anonymity
    2. Protection from harm
    3. Minimize deception
    4. Informed consent
  15. The process of selecting a subset of a population for a survey is known as what?

    1. Survey research
    2. Representation
    3. Triangulation
    4. Sampling
  16. ________ downplays the role of individual and focuses on societal variables.

    1. Psychology
    2. Social psychology
    3. Philosophy
    4. Sociology
  17. When scientists' preconceived ideas about what they are studying affect the nature of their observation, this is known as:

    1. Observer biases
    2. Viewer biases
    3. Participant biases
    4. Actor biases
  18. Which of the following is NOT a reason why a random sample is important?

    1. It allows you to generalize to a broader population
    2. The sample will be completely representative of the population
    3. Every possible sample in a given population has an equal chance to be chosen
    4. The sample is similar to the population on important characteristics
  19. In which year US government established Institutional Review boards for research involving human participants?

    1. 1976
    2. 1987
    3. 1999
    4. 1974
  20. A presumed cause must occur before the presumed effect is known as what?

    1. Time order relationship
    2. Co variation of relationship
    3. Inverse relationship
    4. Direct relationship
  21. Which of the following is a NOT common type of observational methods?

    1. Naturalistic
    2. Participant
    3. Unrealistic
    4. Archival
  22. Who resolved the controversy of applied and pure research by concluding that "no action without research, no research without action".

    1. Kurt Lewin
    2. Neon Festinger
    3. Carl Roger
    4. David Hume
  23. In which of the following settings social psychologists mostly work in Pakistan?

    1. Industries
    2. Clinics
    3. Hospitals
    4. Universities and NGOs
  24. Which of the following is not a part of a research article?

    1. Title
    2. SPSS
    3. Method
    4. Results
  25. "Whether early deprivation can cause a deterioration in IQ" is an example of which goal of research?

    1. Prediction
    2. Understanding
    3. Explanation
    4. Description
  26. According to Margaret Mead, which of the following societies are peaceful?

    1. New Guinea
    2. Mundugumor of New Guinea
    3. New York
    4. Arapesh of New Guinea
  27. Which of the following is not a data collection technique?

    1. Self-reports
    2. Direct observations
    3. Reliability
    4. Archival information
  28. Which of the following is defined as a kind of mental model that people hold?

    1. Believes
    2. Schema
    3. Attitude
    4. Dream
  29. Which of the following is defined as a group of people consists of all the members of an identifiable group from which a sample is drawn?

    1. Population
    2. Public
    3. Sample
    4. Individuals
  30. Which of the following best defines that a student is given candy and soft drinks along with words of praise for a superb performance?

    1. Gift
    2. Reinforcement
    3. Modelling
    4. Learning
  31. Which of the following is defined as - transient states of arousal that direct our behavior?

    1. Emotions
    2. Believes
    3. Attitude
    4. Dream
  32. Which one is not a characteristic of empirical research?

    1. Controlled
    2. Reliable
    3. Valid
    4. Not well planned
  33. Which of the following can be directly observed by using only observational methods?

    1. Cognitions
    2. Perceptions
    3. Thinking
    4. Behaviour
  34. Which one is a type of non-probability sampling?

    1. Stratified
    2. Accidental
    3. Cluster
    4. Random