Behavioural and Allied Sciences

451. A risk avoider tends to make decisions:

  1. Quickly and with little information.
  2. Slowly and with substantial information.
  3. Slowly and with little information.
  4. Quickly and with substantial information.
Correct answer: (B)
Slowly and with substantial information.

452. An individual who is aggressively involved in a chronic incessant struggle to achieve more and more in less and less time is a/an:

  1. Extrovert.
  2. Type AB.
  3. Type B.
  4. Type A.
Correct answer: (D)
Type A.

453. Attribution theory says that when we observe behavior, we attempt to determine whether its cause is:

  1. individual or external.
  2. internal or external.
  3. typical or unusual.
  4. consistent or erratic.
Correct answer: (B)
internal or external.

454. Which of the following personality attributes predicts behavior that is pragmatic and emotionally distant?

  1. Machiavellianism.
  2. Locus of control.
  3. Type A personality.
  4. Conscientiousness.
Correct answer: (A)
Machiavellianism.

455. How would you describe an individual who is capable of presenting striking contradictions between who they are in public and who they are privately?

  1. High self-esteem.
  2. Low self-monitoring.
  3. High risk-taking.
  4. High self-monitoring.
Correct answer: (D)
High self-monitoring.

456. Janice is late for work each day by about ten minutes. This behavior exhibits:

  1. Validity.
  2. Consensus.
  3. Reliability.
  4. Consistency.
Correct answer: (D)
Consistency.

457. When we draw a general impression about an individual based on a single characteristic such as intelligence, sociability or appearance:

  1. We are prejudiced.
  2. We have misjudged the person.
  3. We are projecting.
  4. We are using halo effect.
Correct answer: (D)
We are using halo effect.

458. The focus of a person's attention appears to be influenced by:

  1. experiences, motives, attitudes, and interests.
  2. experiences, beliefs, attitudes, and personality.
  3. interests, attitudes, beliefs, and motives.
  4. experiences, motives, values, and judgments.
Correct answer: (A)
experiences, motives, attitudes, and interests.

459. One of the shortcuts used to judge others involves evaluating a person based on how he or she compares to other individuals recently encountered. This shortcut is known as:

  1. Projection.
  2. Contrast effects.
  3. Bias.
  4. Prejudice.
Correct answer: (B)
Contrast effects.

460. Individuals who rate high in external locus of control:

  1. Are less satisfied with their jobs.
  2. Perceive they have significant control.
  3. Are less alienated from the work setting.
  4. Are more involved in their jobs.
Correct answer: (C)
Are less alienated from the work setting.
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