Social Perception and Influence - Social Psychology - Psychology Previous Year Questions

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2022 · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Perception and Influence

Humanities & Social Sciences-Psychology (XH-C5) 2022

The process through which we seek to identify the causes of other’s behaviour and gain knowledge of their stable traits and dispositions is known as ____________.

A

Distribution

B

Dissemination

C

Retribution

D

Attribution

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2022 · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Perception and Influence

Humanities & Social Sciences-Psychology (XH-C5) 2022

The statement “I can do no wrong, but, you can do no right”, refers to ____________.

A

The self-serving bias

B

The self-other bias

C

The other-self bias

D

The other- serving bias

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2022 · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Perception and Influence

Humanities & Social Sciences-Psychology (XH-C5) 2022

Which of the following statements are related to social cognition?

A

How individuals interpret, analyze, remember and use information about the social world

B

How people create mental structure to organise knowledge about the social world

C

How people think about themselves and the social world

D

It does not allow interaction between people and the environment

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2023 · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Perception and Influence

Humanities & Social Sciences-Psychology (XH-C5) 2023

Match the biases/effects in the first column with the descriptions in the second column of the table given below.

Biases/effects	Descriptions
P) Barnum Effect	i) Tendency to take credit for one's success but downplaying responsibility for one's failure
Q) Reference Group Effect	ii) Tendency to take blame for failure but downplay one's role in the success
R) Self-Serving Bias	iii) Tendency to rate oneself with respect to one's social and cultural group
S) Self-Effacing Bias	iv) Tendency to believe in description of personality that is supposedly descriptive of oneself, but could in fact describe almost anyone

A

P-(i), Q-(iii), R-(ii), S-(iv)

B

P-(iv), Q-(iii), R-(i), S-(ii)

C

P-(iv), Q-(iii), R-(ii), S-(i)

D

P-(iv), Q-(i), R-(ii), S-(iii)

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2023 · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Perception and Influence

Humanities & Social Sciences-Psychology (XH-C5) 2023

Which one of the following statements is TRUE according to Brehm’s reactance theory?

A

A mild sign prohibiting spitting would be more effective in preventing spitting than a strong sign

B

A strong sign would be more effective in preventing spitting than a mild one

C

Absence of any sign would be most effective in preventing spitting

D

Signs are irrelevant to spitting behaviour

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2025 · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Perception and Influence

Humanities & Social Sciences-Psychology (XH-C5) 2025

The tendency to observe behaviors of others in ways that are according to your expectations about them is called:

A

Schema

B

Confirmation bias

C

Social judgment

D

Anchoring

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2025 · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Perception and Influence

Humanities & Social Sciences-Psychology (XH-C5) 2025

The tendency to explain other people’s behavior as the result of personal factors is called ____________.

A

Fundamental attribution error

B

Stereotypes

C

Schemas

D

Actor-observer bias

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2025 · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Perception and Influence

Humanities & Social Sciences-Psychology (XH-C5) 2025

Which of the following is/are true for conformity:

A

Size influences conformity only up to a certain level

B

Size always influences conformity

C

Group unanimity influences conformity

D

Status does not have any influence on conformity

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2026 · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Perception and Influence

Humanities & Social Sciences - Psychology (XH-C5) 2026

According to Moscovici’s Conversion Theory (1980) which of the following statements is/are true for majority influence?

A

Majority influence generates a comparison process (focus on relationship between source and target).

B

Conflict is resolved by overt compliance to majority position in public.

C

Triggers validation process (closer attention to the issue).

D

Target is unlikely to agree with minority in public, for fear of being labelled “deviant”.

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2026 · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Perception and Influence

Humanities & Social Sciences - Psychology (XH-C5) 2026

The probability that a recipient will critically evaluate arguments contained in a message (i.e., elaboration likelihood) is determined by both __________________ and __________________.

A

Processing motivation

B

Processing ability

C

Processing error

D

Processing validity

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2026 · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Perception and Influence

Humanities & Social Sciences - Psychology (XH-C5) 2026

Cultural differences are partly explained by difference in __________________ and __________________.

A

Self-construal

B

Group presence

C

Ecological conditions

D

Shared norms

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