Attitude and Social Cognition PYQ Class 12 Psychology 2026-27

The Class 12 Psychology Chapter 6 Attitude and Social Cognition PYQ PDF brings together 24 board-paper questions from CBSE papers between 2022 and 2026. Every question carries a full step-by-step solution, so students can check an answer and see exactly how examiners expect attitude, prejudice, and attribution questions to be answered, according to the latest 2026-27 CBSE syllabus.

• 24 questions across the usual CBSE sections: one-mark MCQs and assertion-reason, short-answer questions, and longer case-study prompts.
• Full solutions included for all 24 questions, not just a bare answer key.
• Five exam years covered: 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026.

Every solution in this Attitude and Social Cognition PYQ PDF is checked question by question against the 2022 to 2026 CBSE Class 12 Psychology board papers, and according to the 2026-27 NCERT chapter.

What the Attitude and Social Cognition Previous Year Questions Cover

The Attitude and Social Cognition PYQs test the full social-psychology unit, not just the definitions. Case-study prompts usually combine two or three ideas from the list below into one story about a person or a group.

• Nature and components of attitude: the affective, behavioural, and cognitive (ABC) parts.
• Attitude formation and change, including persuasion and the role of communicator and message.
• Cognitive dissonance and how people resolve conflicting beliefs.
• Prejudice and discrimination, and strategies used to reduce them.
• Social cognition: schemas, schematic processing, and impression formation.
• Attribution theory: Kelley's covariation model, the fundamental attribution error, and self-serving bias.

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Marks-wise Distribution of the Attitude and Social Cognition PYQs

Like every Class 12 Psychology chapter, the CBSE paper spreads Attitude and Social Cognition questions across four sections. This PDF's 24 questions follow that same pattern.

Section A carries the most questions but the fewest total marks, so most students clear it fastest. Section D carries fewer questions but needs the most writing, since a case study usually names a person's behaviour and asks students to identify the concept behind it.

Year-wise Spread of the Attitude and Social Cognition Board Questions (2022-2026)

This PDF pulls from five back-to-back CBSE cycles, so students can see how the question style has shifted year on year.

Every one of the five most recent CBSE cycles is represented in this compilation, so students see how the same concept, say cognitive dissonance or attribution error, has been asked in slightly different ways over time.

Topic Frequency in the Attitude and Social Cognition PYQs

Not every topic in the chapter gets asked with equal weight. Based on the 24 questions in this PDF, attribution theory and prejudice-reduction ideas come up most often, usually dressed up as a short story about a workplace or a classroom.

Marks-Band Attempt Strategy for the Attitude and Social Cognition Chapter

A clear order of attempt saves time in the actual CBSE Class 12 Psychology paper. Most students should not start with Section D.

• Start with Section A: clear the one-mark MCQs and assertion-reason items first; they need recall, not writing.
• Move to Section B: the 2-mark VSA rewards a crisp two-line answer, not a paragraph.
• Then Section C: for 3-mark SA, name the concept first, then explain it with one example.
• Finish with Section D: read the case study twice before answering; underline the exact behaviour described before naming the concept.

Common Mistakes Students Make in the Attitude and Social Cognition Chapter

• Confusing prejudice (a negative attitude) with discrimination (the behaviour that follows from it).
• Naming an attribution as "dispositional" or "situational" without pointing to Kelley's consensus, distinctiveness, or consistency cues.
• Treating the fundamental attribution error and self-serving bias as the same idea, when the chapter defines them separately.
• Skipping the "assertion" and "reason" labels separately in Assertion-Reason questions.
• Writing only the affective part of an attitude answer and leaving out the behavioural and cognitive parts.

The ABC Model: How Attitude Splits Into Three Components

NCERT defines attitude as having three components, and case-study questions often ask students to spot all three inside one short description of a person's reaction.

The quick way to tell the three apart: feeling, doing, and thinking are three separate questions, and examiners usually plant one line in the case study for each.

• Affective: the feeling or emotion attached to the attitude object, such as liking or disliking.
• Behavioural: the tendency to act in a particular way because of the attitude.
• Cognitive: the beliefs and knowledge a person holds about the attitude object.

Attribution Theory in the PYQs: Kelley's Model, FAE, and Self-Serving Bias

Attribution theory is the single most-tested idea in this chapter. A case study describes why something happened, and the question asks students to explain the cause using the right framework.

Kelley's covariation model uses three cues: consensus, distinctiveness, and consistency, to decide whether behaviour is caused by the person (dispositional) or the situation (situational). Two related ideas sit close to this model and are easy to confuse in an exam.

• Fundamental attribution error: the tendency to over-explain other people's behaviour with their personality and under-explain the situation.
• Self-serving bias: the tendency to credit success to oneself and blame failure on the situation.

How These PYQs Pair with Other Chapter 6 Resources

This PDF works best alongside the other Class 12 Psychology Chapter 6 resources on Collegedunia. Use the PYQ PDF to practise recall and timing after the concepts are already clear from the notes.

How to Use the Attitude and Social Cognition PYQ PDF Most Effectively

The PDF works best as a timed drill, not a read-through. A simple three-round routine covers all 24 questions without wasting a full mock-test slot.

• Round 1: attempt Section A and B cold, without looking at the solutions, and time yourself.
• Round 2: attempt Section C and D, then check every answer against the step-by-step solution in the PDF.
• Round 3: redo only the questions marked wrong, a day or two later, to confirm the concept has stuck.

NCERT PYQ for Class 12 Psychology: All Chapters

The table below lists the PYQ PDF for every chapter of Class 12 Psychology, so students can move straight to the next chapter's board questions.