PYC3701 EXAM
PACK 2024
QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
FOR ASSISTANCE CONTACT
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PYC3701 - May/June 2024
1. Mental framework for organising and processing social information
are known as
1. Affective states
2. Anchoring frameworks
3. Schemas
4. Heuristics
2. Which one of the following individuals is most likely to experience
information overload? A person who is:
1. Talking on a cell phone while driving a car
2. Singing in the shower
3. Dancing and talking at a party
4. Chatting with his wife while dressing for work
3. One way that schemas influence social thought is by
1. Ensuring that inconsistent information is stored in our memories and
retrieved rapidly
2. Increasing our cognitive load by activating more information from our
long term memory stores
3. Activating the availability heuristic and enabling automatic priming
4. Acting as a filter to direct our attention towards some
information and way from other information.
4. Schemas affect our use of stored memory by
1. Making it easier to retrieve information that is consistent with
the schema
2. Increasing the cognitive load on our reasoning abilities, making it more
difficult to search our memories
3. Deactivating the anchoring and adjustment process whereby we make
social judgement
4. Not allowing the use of memories to reduce cognitive load.
5. Automatic mental processing has the positive affect of
1. Focusing on information that may be useful at some future time
2. Priming our memories for related situations or events
3. Reducing the level of bias our judgement and decisions
4. Regarding the effort needed for understanding the social world.
6. In thinking about a major assignment that is due in one week, Jesy
focuses on the tasks to be accomplished and how she thinks she will
approach each task. She does not spend much time thinking about
how long similar tasks have taken her in the past. As a result, Jesy
is likely to be underestimate the amount of time needed for the
assignment. This is probably because Jacey has
1. Fallen prey to the negative bias
2. Activated an inappropriate schema
3. Engaged in magical thinking
4. Entered a planning or narrative mode of thought.
, lOMoARcPSD|46589353
PYC3701 - May/June 2024
1. Mental framework for organising and processing social information
are known as
1. Affective states
2. Anchoring frameworks
3. Schemas
4. Heuristics
2. Which one of the following individuals is most likely to experience
information overload? A person who is:
1. Talking on a cell phone while driving a car
2. Singing in the shower
3. Dancing and talking at a party
4. Chatting with his wife while dressing for work
3. One way that schemas influence social thought is by
1. Ensuring that inconsistent information is stored in our memories and
retrieved rapidly
2. Increasing our cognitive load by activating more information from our
long term memory stores
3. Activating the availability heuristic and enabling automatic priming
4. Acting as a filter to direct our attention towards some
information and way from other information.
4. Schemas affect our use of stored memory by
1. Making it easier to retrieve information that is consistent with
the schema
2. Increasing the cognitive load on our reasoning abilities, making it more
difficult to search our memories
3. Deactivating the anchoring and adjustment process whereby we make
social judgement
4. Not allowing the use of memories to reduce cognitive load.
5. Automatic mental processing has the positive affect of
1. Focusing on information that may be useful at some future time
2. Priming our memories for related situations or events
3. Reducing the level of bias our judgement and decisions
4. Regarding the effort needed for understanding the social world.
6. In thinking about a major assignment that is due in one week, Jesy
focuses on the tasks to be accomplished and how she thinks she will
approach each task. She does not spend much time thinking about
how long similar tasks have taken her in the past. As a result, Jesy
is likely to be underestimate the amount of time needed for the
assignment. This is probably because Jacey has
1. Fallen prey to the negative bias
2. Activated an inappropriate schema
3. Engaged in magical thinking
4. Entered a planning or narrative mode of thought.
, lOMoARcPSD|46589353
7. The tendency to imagine outcomes is a situation other than what is
actually occurred is known as
1. Counterfactual thinking
2. Reminiscence thinking
3. Mitigation thinking
4. Counterintuitive thinking
8. Sipho has been severely depressed for about six months and has
difficulty remembering when he was not depressed. He is
illustrating the effects of
1. Mood-congruent memory
2. Mood-assimilation memory
3. Mood-deleting memory
4. Mood-dependent memory
9. Thabo is overjoyed by the fact that he received a scholarship to go
to law school. S a result of his general positive and happy mood, he
would be most likely to show an
1. Increased level of compassion
2. Increase in depression
3. Increase in creativity
4. Excessively high sense of self-worth
10. Jason has been told that he should make sure to shake hands with
the interviewer when he goes for a job interview, and that his
handshake should be firm, vigorous, and last a long time.
According to research (Chaplin et al, 2000), if Jason follows this
advice, the interviewer may think that Jason is
1. Slightly disagreeable but very outgoing
2. Outgoing and willing to try new things
3. A bit neurotic and somewhat outgoing
4. Attempting to ingratiate himself with the interviewer.
11. An example of inter channel discrepancy during deception would
be
1. Blinking very often
2. Showing one expression quickly followed by another
3. Smiling more frequently and broadly than would be expected in a given
situation
4. Managing one’s facial expressions well while not making much
eye contact.
12. Which statement best describes the attribution process? The
process by which we
1. Seek to understand the causes of the behaviour of others and
ourselves
2. Focus attention inward for reflection
3. Combine information about others into unified impressions of them
4. Attempting to shift blame away from ourselves.
PACK 2024
QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
FOR ASSISTANCE CONTACT
EMAIL:
, lOMoARcPSD|46589353
PYC3701 - May/June 2024
1. Mental framework for organising and processing social information
are known as
1. Affective states
2. Anchoring frameworks
3. Schemas
4. Heuristics
2. Which one of the following individuals is most likely to experience
information overload? A person who is:
1. Talking on a cell phone while driving a car
2. Singing in the shower
3. Dancing and talking at a party
4. Chatting with his wife while dressing for work
3. One way that schemas influence social thought is by
1. Ensuring that inconsistent information is stored in our memories and
retrieved rapidly
2. Increasing our cognitive load by activating more information from our
long term memory stores
3. Activating the availability heuristic and enabling automatic priming
4. Acting as a filter to direct our attention towards some
information and way from other information.
4. Schemas affect our use of stored memory by
1. Making it easier to retrieve information that is consistent with
the schema
2. Increasing the cognitive load on our reasoning abilities, making it more
difficult to search our memories
3. Deactivating the anchoring and adjustment process whereby we make
social judgement
4. Not allowing the use of memories to reduce cognitive load.
5. Automatic mental processing has the positive affect of
1. Focusing on information that may be useful at some future time
2. Priming our memories for related situations or events
3. Reducing the level of bias our judgement and decisions
4. Regarding the effort needed for understanding the social world.
6. In thinking about a major assignment that is due in one week, Jesy
focuses on the tasks to be accomplished and how she thinks she will
approach each task. She does not spend much time thinking about
how long similar tasks have taken her in the past. As a result, Jesy
is likely to be underestimate the amount of time needed for the
assignment. This is probably because Jacey has
1. Fallen prey to the negative bias
2. Activated an inappropriate schema
3. Engaged in magical thinking
4. Entered a planning or narrative mode of thought.
, lOMoARcPSD|46589353
PYC3701 - May/June 2024
1. Mental framework for organising and processing social information
are known as
1. Affective states
2. Anchoring frameworks
3. Schemas
4. Heuristics
2. Which one of the following individuals is most likely to experience
information overload? A person who is:
1. Talking on a cell phone while driving a car
2. Singing in the shower
3. Dancing and talking at a party
4. Chatting with his wife while dressing for work
3. One way that schemas influence social thought is by
1. Ensuring that inconsistent information is stored in our memories and
retrieved rapidly
2. Increasing our cognitive load by activating more information from our
long term memory stores
3. Activating the availability heuristic and enabling automatic priming
4. Acting as a filter to direct our attention towards some
information and way from other information.
4. Schemas affect our use of stored memory by
1. Making it easier to retrieve information that is consistent with
the schema
2. Increasing the cognitive load on our reasoning abilities, making it more
difficult to search our memories
3. Deactivating the anchoring and adjustment process whereby we make
social judgement
4. Not allowing the use of memories to reduce cognitive load.
5. Automatic mental processing has the positive affect of
1. Focusing on information that may be useful at some future time
2. Priming our memories for related situations or events
3. Reducing the level of bias our judgement and decisions
4. Regarding the effort needed for understanding the social world.
6. In thinking about a major assignment that is due in one week, Jesy
focuses on the tasks to be accomplished and how she thinks she will
approach each task. She does not spend much time thinking about
how long similar tasks have taken her in the past. As a result, Jesy
is likely to be underestimate the amount of time needed for the
assignment. This is probably because Jacey has
1. Fallen prey to the negative bias
2. Activated an inappropriate schema
3. Engaged in magical thinking
4. Entered a planning or narrative mode of thought.
, lOMoARcPSD|46589353
7. The tendency to imagine outcomes is a situation other than what is
actually occurred is known as
1. Counterfactual thinking
2. Reminiscence thinking
3. Mitigation thinking
4. Counterintuitive thinking
8. Sipho has been severely depressed for about six months and has
difficulty remembering when he was not depressed. He is
illustrating the effects of
1. Mood-congruent memory
2. Mood-assimilation memory
3. Mood-deleting memory
4. Mood-dependent memory
9. Thabo is overjoyed by the fact that he received a scholarship to go
to law school. S a result of his general positive and happy mood, he
would be most likely to show an
1. Increased level of compassion
2. Increase in depression
3. Increase in creativity
4. Excessively high sense of self-worth
10. Jason has been told that he should make sure to shake hands with
the interviewer when he goes for a job interview, and that his
handshake should be firm, vigorous, and last a long time.
According to research (Chaplin et al, 2000), if Jason follows this
advice, the interviewer may think that Jason is
1. Slightly disagreeable but very outgoing
2. Outgoing and willing to try new things
3. A bit neurotic and somewhat outgoing
4. Attempting to ingratiate himself with the interviewer.
11. An example of inter channel discrepancy during deception would
be
1. Blinking very often
2. Showing one expression quickly followed by another
3. Smiling more frequently and broadly than would be expected in a given
situation
4. Managing one’s facial expressions well while not making much
eye contact.
12. Which statement best describes the attribution process? The
process by which we
1. Seek to understand the causes of the behaviour of others and
ourselves
2. Focus attention inward for reflection
3. Combine information about others into unified impressions of them
4. Attempting to shift blame away from ourselves.
