1.

Authoritarianism is a political system that denies __________ participation in

government.
a. NGO
b. Popular
c. Institutional
d. None of the above
2. A crowd whose sole purpose is to create religious revival is known as:
a. Impressive crowd
b. Expressive crowd
c. Acting crowd
d. Protest crowd
3. The most notorious example of mob behavior in US is known as:
a. Leeching
b. Lynching
c. Hooliganism
d. Activism
4. Classical conditioning is also called.
a. Respondent conditioning
b. Instrumental conditioning
c. Reinforcement conditioning
d. Escape learning
5. According to the information-processing theory by Atkinson and Shiffrin, a sensory input is
first held for a brief time in our
a. Short Term Memory
b. Long Term Memory
c. Sensory Register
d. Semantic Memory
6. Which of the below is not a psychological amnesia
a. Dream Amnesia
b. Childhood amnesia
c. Defensive Amnesia
d. Transient Global Amnesia
7. _____ does not belong to the group of middle-income countries.
a. Mexico
b. Poland
c. Argentina
d. Brazil
8. Periods of ______ prompt us to use the social perspective.
a. crisis
b. growth
c. progress
d. choice
9. Sociologists have helped shaped public policy & law involving
i. School desegregation
ii. Pornography regulation
iii. Corporate salaries
iv. School busing
a) i, ii and iv
b) i, ii, iii and iv
c) i, ii and iii
d) i and ii
10. Which of these theories of personality is credited to Freud?
a. Psychoanalytic Theory
b. Hierarchical theory
c. Psychoanalytic Interpersonal theory
d. Early Social Learning theory
11. Which is the largest sub field of Psychology
a. Abnormal Psychology
b. Clinical Psychology
c. Social Psychology
d. Experimental Psychology
12. In a reinforcement schedule of Operant Conditioning, behavior is reinforced only
after a certain number of responses are made
a. Fixed-ratio schedule
b. Fixed- Interval schedule
c. Variable-Interval schedule
d. Variable-ratio schedule
13. Homo sapiens derived from the Latin meaning __________.
a. Active person
b. Intelligent person
c. Thinking person
d. None of the above
14. Ideal Culture always differs from _____________.
a. Real Culture
b. Unreal Culture
c. Material Culture
d. Social Culture
15. The _________ is generating symbols-words, sounds, and images-faster than ever before.
a. Social Revolution
b. Economic Revolution
c. Information revolution
d. None of the above
16. The theory which suggests people wishing to act in a certain way form crowds is known
as:
a. Emergent norm theory
b. Contagion theory
c. Crowd sourcing theory
d. Convergence theory
17. The intension of information flow through the mechanism of propaganda is:
a. Shaping public opinion
b. Manipulative encoding
c. Disseminating self-interest
d. Malicious encoding
18. Fashion involves conspicuous consumption is proposed by:
a. Georg Simmel
b. Thorstein Veblen
c. Erich Goode
d. Rupert Murdoch
19. Among the early theories of Psychology, An approach to Psychology that focuses on the
organization of perception and thinking in a whole sense rather than on the individual
elements of perception is:
a. Structuralism
b. Functionalism
c. Humanistic Perspective
d. Gestalt Psychology
20. _____________________ represent a new political order because they have enormous
power to shape events throughout the world.
a. Multinational corporations
b. Non Governmental organizations
c. Special-interest groups
d. All of the above
21. The branch of psychology that studies the process of sensing, perceiving, learning and
thinking about the world is called:
a. Biopsychology
b. Experimental Psychology
c. Developmental Psychology
d. Educational Psychology
22. Max Weber defined _______ as the ability to achieve desired ends despite resistance
from others.
a. Power
b. Politics
c. Management
d. All of the above
23. Traditional authority ______________ as societies industrialize.
a. stabilizes
b. declines
c. increases
d. None of the above
24. _______________authority is defined as power legitimized by legally enacted rules and
regulations.
a. Rational-legal
b. Charismatic
c. Traditional
d. All of the above
25. _____________ is a type of political system that gives power to the people as a whole.
a. Libertarianism
b. Socialism
c. Democracy
d. None of the above
26. . Model of memory states that long term memory is stored as associations
between pieces of information
a. Levels of processing theory
b. Constructive process
c. Associative model
d. Projective model
27. A cultural pattern that strongly opposes those widely accepted within a society.
a. Material Culture
b. Counter Culture
c. Culture of Victimization
d. All of the above
28. _____________ means the close relationships among various elements of a cultural
system.
a. Cultural Integration
b. Cultural Change
c. Cultural Relativism
d. None of the above
29. Ethnocentrism is the practice of judging another culture by the standards of__________.
a. Global Culture
b. Relevant Culture
c. Non relevant Culture
d. Ones own Culture
30. Diversion of unwanted impulses into socially approved thoughts , feelings or behaviors is
called:
a. Rationalization
b. Sublimation
c. Displacement
d. Projection
31. The branch of psychology that deals with the study, diagnosis and treatment of abnormal
behavior is called:
a. Clinical Psychology
b. Developmental Psychology
c. Health Psychology
d. Experimental Psychology
32. The Marxist political-economy model explains politics in terms of the operation of a
societys ______________ system.
a. cultural
b. social
c. economic
d. None of the above
33. _________ is a framework for building theory that sees society as a complex system
whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability
a. Functional-structural paradigm
b. Symbolic-functional paradigm
c. Functional-symbolic paradigm
d. Structural-functional paradigm
34. A ___________ economy is a purely capitalist economy with no government
interference.
a. Mercantile
b. Laissez-faire
c. Keynesian
d. None of the above
35. ________________ is an economic and political system in which companies are
privately owned but co-operate closely with the government.
a. State capitalism
b. Welfare capitalism
c. Market based economy
d. All of the above
36. The ________________ has introduced new kinds of products and new forms of
communication and has altered the character of work. In short, it blurs the line between
work and home life.
a. Industrial revolution
b. Agricultural revolution
c. Information revolution
d. None of the above

37. From a ____________ point of view, cutting back workers wages and benefits to boost
company earnings is putting profits before people and is thus an injustice.
a. Utilitarian
b. Socialist
c. Capitalist
d. None of the above

38. The ____________ is the segment of the labour force employed in low skilled blue collar
assembly line operations and low level service sector jobs.
a. Primary labour market
b. Secondary labour market
c. Tertiary labour market
d. All of the above
39. Capitalism is an economic system in which natural resources and the means of producing
goods and services are ___________________ owned.
a. Collectively
b. Government
c. Privately
d. None of the above
40. What is the term used by Merton to describe any social pattern that may disrupt the
operation of society.
a. Social Dysfunction
b. Social Conflict
c. Social Variance
d. Social Divergence
41. World peace depends on resolving the tensions and conflicts that fuel _______________.
a. Militarism
b. Monarchy
c. Disarmament
d. Democracy

42. The _____________ is the social institution that organizes the societies production,
distribution and consumption of goods and services
a. Government
b. Economy
c. Family
d. Politics
43. Social psychologists generally consider attitudes to follow the ABC model where ABC stands
for:
a. Attitudes Behavior Cognition
b. Affect Behavior Condition
c. Attitude Behavior Condition
d. Affect Behavior Cognition
44. Which of the following sets are the 3 components of Love as proposed by Sternberg:
a. Passion, closeness, sexuality
b. Attraction, desire, complementarity
c. Passion, intimacy, commitment
d. Commitment, caring, sexuality
45. The ______________ is a productive system based on service work and high technology.
a. Post-industrial economy
b. Industrial economy
c. Agricultural economy
d. Pre-industrial economy
46. The Greek word for mother city is:
a. Technopolis
b. Cinepolis
c. Hypercity
d. Metropolis
47. __________________ viewed socialism as one important step on the path toward the
ideal of a communist society that abolishes all class divisions.
a. Karl Marx
b. Adam Smith
c. Max Weber
d. All of the above
48. Considering the city as a human kaleidoscope was the ideation of:
a. Wilbert Schramm
b. Lazarfield
c. Laswell
d. Robert Park
49. The study of the link between the physical and social dimensions of cities is:
a. Metro ecology
b. Urban ecology
c. City ecology
d. Urban demography
50. Gross domestic product measures the ______________
a. Quantity of final goods and services produced in the economy in a certain period
of time
b. Quantity of final goods and services sold in the economy in a certain period of
time
c. Total value of final goods and services produced in the economy in a certain
period of time.
d. None of the above