Question Bank for Grade 12 Social Studies

Emma sits in class after finishing a practice problem. She knows the answer is 4 but when her teacher asks ¨raise your hand if you think the answer is 8¨ the rest of the class raises her hands. Confused, Emma raises her hand along with the others, scared that her classmates will think she is stupid if she doesn't follow along.

what causes this reaction?

• Peer pressure

• Conformity

• Social norms

• The bystander effect

• Social Facilitation

After not seeing a shark for a long time, Mary gets over her fear of them that was caused by a shark almost biting her leg off the last time she saw one. However, she returns to the beach, sees a shark, and is immediately reluctant to return to the water. What is Mary experiencing?

• Relearning

• Discrimination

• Conditioned Stimulus

• Spontaneous Recovery

• Extinguishment

Jonathan is trying to shape his dog into learning how to 'shake' by giving him a treat every time he performs the handshake 5 times in a row. What type of reinforcement schedule is Jonathan using?

• Variable Interval

• Fixed Interval

• Fixed Ratio

• Variable Ratio

• Chaining

Jerome is sitting in class when his teacher hands him his test back, he failed. He automatically becomes upset, thinking the test was unfair, the teacher isnt good, and it was impossible to pass.

Why does Jerome place the blame onto all of these situations instead of his own disposition?

• peripheral route persuasion 

• Laziness

• narcissism 

• Attitude

• Self serving bias 

Shaun is conducting a study that examines the relationship between the amount of sunlight and plant growth rates. During the study, Shaun found that for almost every plant species the increase in sunlight caused a similar increase in the growth rate of that plant, Shaun's findings could be described by saying that these two variables have a high ________.

• Correlation Coefficient

• Mean

• Median

• Mode

• Range

Gregory is conducting an experiment on the acidity of tomatoes grown in different climates, Gregory has made sure that the tomatoes are planted in the same type of soil. However, Gregory cannot account for the variance in cloud cover affecting the amount of sunlight the plant receives. The dependent variable in Gregory's experiment is the __________.

• Amount of Sunlight

• Type of Soil

• How large the Tomatoes get

• pH level of the Tomatoes

• The Climate of the Area

Casey sits a red apple on a table in front of a child in a brightly lit room and the child correctly identifies it as red. When Casey switches the light to green LEDs, the child still answers that the apple is red, though the apple now appears to be dark green. This is an example of:

• Size Constancy

• Proximity

• Light and Shadow

• Similarity

• Color Constancy

Anthony, a 14-year-old boy, is starting to notice strange changes to his body. He had a huge growth spurt over the summer, is starting to develop armpit and chest hair, and has a noticeably deeper voice than a couple of years ago. Anthony is most likely going through...

• Formal Operational Stage

• Habituation

• Zone of Proximal Development

• Puberty

• Assimilation

Jayla's mom is always very strict with her about her academics. She has to study for at least three hours everyday when she comes home from school, even on Fridays. Her mom yells at her every time she comes home with a grade lower than an A and demands that Jayla finishes with at least a 95 in every one of her classes at the end of the year. If not, Jayla is grounded for the first month of summer break and gets her phone confiscated. Every time Jayla questions her mom's policy, she responds with, "I make the rules; it's your job to follow them." What parenting style is Jayla's mom using?

• Authoritative Parenting

• Permissive Parenting

• Authoritarian Parenting

• Uninvolved Parenting

• Submissive Parenting

In his youth, John went to many loud concerts, resulting in damage to his cochlea's receptor cells. This is an example of _____

• conduction hearing loss

• transduction

• sensorineural hearing loss

• change blindness

• Weber's Law