SCAB: Individual and the Group Recap

Which of the following is not an essential understanding of SCAB?

• Culture affects our behaviour

• Our behaviour is influenced by others, even when we believe we are acting independently

• We have a personal self and several social selves.

• Animals may be studied in order to get a deeper insight into human behaviour

Social Cognitive Theory argues that a person has not just one “personal self”, but rather several social selves that correspond to group membership.

• True

• False

Tajfel identified three psychological mechanisms involved in the creation of a social identity:

• Social Comparison, Social Categorisation, In Group Differentiation

• Social Categorisation, Social Comparison, Positive Distinctiveness

• Social Comparison, Social Identification, Positive Distinctiveness

• Social Categorisation, Social Conformity, Positive Distinctiveness

What were the results of the Abrams study?

• Participants conformed irrespective of whether confederates were part of the in group or out group

• Participants conformed to the erroneous confederate judgments more often when they believed the confederates were from their in-group

• Participants conformed to the erroneous confederate judgments more often when they believed the confederates were from the out-group

• None of the participants conformed to the erroneous response given by confederates

Supportive Research for SIT is by:

• Asch and Abrams

• Cialdini and Bandura

• Asch and Bandura

• Abrams and Cialdini

According to Bandura, social cognitive learning involves the following cognitive factors:

• Attention, Retention, Motivation, Potential

• Attention, Self Efficacy, Consistency, Potential

• Attention, Retention, Encouragement, Reinforcement

• Attention, Retention, Validation, Potential

Which of the following do not influence whether or not the observer decides to imitate and learn:

• Consistency

• Identification

• Proximity

• Relatability to the model

What type of research method did Bandura use for his Bobo doll study?

• Naturalistic Observation

• Experiment

• Laboratory Observation

• Semi Structured Interview

Does SIT have high heuristic validity?

• True

• False

Although the early research on SIT was conducted only on boys, today research has been done on a diverse sample of gender, socioeconomic status and culture. Which part of TEACUP does this fall under?

• A- Application

• P- Predictive Validity

• T- Testable

• U- Unbiased