Social psychology tests

Social psychology tests

1. What is the object of study of social psychology (choose two correct answers):

• A) the individual;
• B) relationships between people
• C) groups of people
• D) individual representatives of social communities.

2. Which of the following is not among the tasks of social psychology:

• A) studying the specifics and distinctive features of the phenomena that make up people's social consciousness
• B) identifying links between broad social influences and general types of people's social behavior
• C) studying the distinctive features of an individual's socialization under various conditions
• D) studying mass phenomena and processes.

3. Which branch of social psychology reveals the distinctive features of the processes of interaction and information exchange between people and social groups:

• A) the psychology of conflict
• B) ethnic psychology
• C) the psychology of management
• D) the psychology of communication.

4. What is the subject of study of social psychology (choose two correct answers):

• A) social-psychological phenomena
• B) the human psyche
• C) mental phenomena arising as a result of people's interaction
• D) social relations.

5. Which of the following is not among the tasks of social psychology:

• A) studying the specifics and distinctive features of the phenomena that make up people's social consciousness
• B) identifying links between broad social influences and general types of people's social behavior
• C) studying the distinctive features of an individual's socialization under various conditions
• D) studying mass phenomena and processes.

6. What is the basic criterion for classifying social-psychological phenomena:

• A) their level of expression
• B) their duration
• C) the degree to which a person is aware of them
• D) their belonging to various communities and subjects.

7. Which theories served as the methodological basis for establishing social psychology as an independent branch of knowledge (three correct answers):

• A) operant conditioning theory
• D) evolutionism
• B) folk psychology
• E) mass psychology
• C) existentialism
• F) instinct theory of social behavior.

8. The theoretical tasks of social psychology, as distinct from its applied tasks, are:

• A) Establishing the most general laws and regularities of social-psychological processes
• B) Studying social-psychological processes within a specific sphere of social interaction
• C) Social-psychological correction and reconstruction of group and interpersonal processes

9. What is the driving force of a person's psychological development:

• A) society in the totality of all its manifestations
• B) systems of family relations
• C) genetic predispositions and abilities
• D) contradictions between an individual's needs and external circumstances.

10. What is a social-psychological characteristic of a person:

• A) a person's belonging to a particular social group
• B) the presence of features that make a person unlike those around them
• C) the mutual influence of individual and social qualities manifested in the process of interacting with other people
• D) an individual occupying a certain position in society.

11. The social-psychological aspect in the structure of personality reflects:

• A) qualities that allow a person to occupy a certain position among people
• B) the specific functioning of mental processes, properties, and states
• C) socially significant qualities that determine a person's most important life goals, interests, relationships, and positions.

12. Which typological theory of personality, based on the criterion of a person's use of social-psychological patterns, distinguishes two types — manipulator and actualizer:

• A) Kretschmer's theory
• B) E. Shostrom's concept
• C) C. G. Jung's concept
• D) Leonhard's classification.

13. What is socialization:

• A) it is the result of people's social interaction
• B) it is the process of assimilating the norms and laws of society
• C) it is a synonym for the concept of «personality development»
• D) it is a two-way process of assimilating social experience and actively reproducing it.

14. What is the problem of personality in social psychology connected with (choose three correct answers):

• A) The mutual influence of the individual and the group
• B) Socialization of the individual
• C) The relationship between the biological and the social
• D) Regulation of an individual's social behavior
• E) The structure of personality

15. Match the mechanisms of socialization with their descriptive characteristics:
I. Traditional A) an internal dialogue in which a person considers, evaluates,
and accepts certain values
II. Institutional
B) a set of values and norms
that together create the specific
lifestyle of a particular social
group
III. Stylized C) uncritical assimilation of norms
and views characteristic of one's immediate environment
IV. Interpersonal
D) the process of interacting with organizations that carry out socializing functions

V. Reflexive E) the process of interacting with people who are subjectively significant
to a person

16. What is a person's social identity:

• A) A person's identification with the values and norms of social groups
• B) The social homogeneity of the conditions of socialization
• C) Social comparison
• D) The ability for self-realization.

17. What is the main criterion of a person's degree of socialization (choose two correct answers):

• A) level of conformity
• B) independence and self-sufficiency
• C) unification of personality, the ability to follow someone else's will
• D) initiative, confidence.

18. What is communication, in terms of its psychological content:

• A) a process of transmitting information
• B) a means of building relationships
• C) a complex psychological activity of the partners involved
• D) a situation of interaction between people.

19. Match the aspects of communication with their descriptive characteristics:
I. Interpersonal
A) getting to know another person and
oneself in the process of interaction
II. Cognitive
B) reconciling internal and
external contradictions in the partners' positions
III. Communicative-informational
C) emotions, feelings, and moods arising in the partners' personal contacts
IV. Emotive
D) a person's interaction with
their immediate environment
V. Conative
E) the process of exchanging information
between people

20. Which function of communication is being described here: «Serves the interests of establishing and maintaining
stable and productive connections, contacts, and relationships between people in the interests of their joint activity»?

• A) pragmatic
• B) confirming
• C) organizing
• D) formative
• E) uniting
• F) intrapersonal.

21. Which form of communication is studied in social psychology:

• A) communication between groups
• B) communication as an interpersonal relationship
• C) communication as a thought process (internal dialogue)
• D) communication between social classes.

22. Nonverbal means of communication include (choose two correct answers):

• A) manner of behavior
• B) speech
• C) outward appearance
• D) literacy.

23. What can give rise to specific communication barriers in a communication situation (choose two correct answers):

• A) errors in encoding information
• B) lack of understanding
• C) differing interpretations of concepts
• D) the absence of a recipient.

24. Which proposition underlies the dialectical approach to examining conflict:

• A) conflict is conditioned by the biological law of natural selection
• B) conflict is conditioned by the variability of social life
• C) the source of conflict is frustration
• D) conflict arises from the division of people into classes.

25. What is the positive role of conflict, in the dialectical approach, connected with (choose two correct answers):

• A) conflicts stimulate development
• B) conflicts are inevitable
• C) conflicts bring nature and society into balance
• D) conflict helps clarify the problem.

26. What is a necessary condition for the emergence of conflict (choose two correct answers):

• A) a state of frustration among the participants
• B) a conflict of interests and goals between the parties
• C) the presence of instigators
• D) the attitudes of the interacting participants.

27. Arrange the stages of conflict development in sequence:

• A) closed stage
• B) completion stage
• C) latent stage
• D) open stage.

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