1301 Assertion (A): In social research, a high proportion of refusals to answer a research always occurs solely due to inadequate interview instructions or poor interview training.

Reason (R): Within the questionnaire or interview, even a substantive number of questions often remain unanswered making difficult for the researcher to state an exact figure and forcing him to restudy the questions carefully as fault might lie upon a poor transition.
Option-Sets:
(A) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(B) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are true.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are false.

Answer

Answer: (B)

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1302 Assertion (A): In recent times, it is easier to copy, and paste the contents from a digital documents for which people knowingly avoid to credit the sources. Increased access to digital documents has provided a means for increase of plagiarism.

Reason (R): Software assisted detection tools like ithenticate, turnitin etc. now allow vast collection of online documents to be compared to each other making successful detection of plagiarism.
Option-Sets:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(B) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(C) (R) is true, but (A) is false.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are true.

Answer

Answer: (D)

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1303 Assertion (A): F.W. Lancaster’s cocksure prediction of a paperless society by the end of 20th century holds no good.

Reason (R): Transition from print dominance to paperless ascendancy, change from scroll to codex and introduction of movable type were not only the few historical shifts, but were also hugely significant innovations. Inspite of rapid technological changes, the future libraries will still accommodate a very large print collection. However, the propelling vision of an informationdriven paperless society, though seems inevitable to avoid space, staff, and cost crunch, may buy more time to become a reality.
Option-Sets:
(A) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(B) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are true.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are false.

Answer

Answer: (B)

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1304 Assertion (A): The curriculum of LIS education in India is mostly unsteady as local LIS requirements vary.

Reason (R): Adoption of UGC model syllabus is not mandatory for the LIS schools in India.
Option-Sets:
(A) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(B) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are true.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are false.

Answer

Answer: (C)

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1305 In the agentic socio-cognitive view, “human action” is the product of:
(A) A dynamic interplay of personal and situational influences
(B) Personal determinants and mechanisms of human functioning
(C) Social bespoke and practices
(D) Schematic processing of experiences and memory representation

Answer

Answer: (A)

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1306 Why the second approach to the ‘self system’ is construed by the author as “mechanically reactive agency” ?
(A) An external system through which internal influences operate mechanically.
(B) An internal system through which external influences operate mechanically on action having no directive influence exerted by the individuals on process.
(C) An external system through which external influences operate mechanically on action.
(D) An external system through which external influences operate in which individuals exert direct influence on the process.

Answer

Answer: (B)

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1307 According to the agentic view of “Personality”, what does the ‘self system’ meant to the author ?
(A) A Repository for implanted structures and a conduit for internal influences.
(B) A Repository for implanted structures and a conduit for external influences.
(C) An archive for preserving unusual human instincts.
(D) A Pen-stock to restrict the flow of unusual and instant human behaviour.

Answer

Answer: (B)

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1308 What does ‘consciousness’ conceptually meant to the author ?
(A) A demonstration of physical condition based on situation
(B) The very substance of phenomenal and functional mental life
(C) The rigid state of mental condition.
(D) A Spiritual state of mind

Answer

Answer: (B)

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1309 How does the author differentiate between “passive undergoing” and “agentic doing” ?
(A) Conscious of the experiences one is undergoing and consciously producing given experiences.
(B) Conscious of the experiences one is undergoing, but fail to use the given experiences.
(C) Conscious of the past experience and their wrongful use irrelevant to need.
(D) Unconscious of the experience and their non-intentional use.

Answer

Answer: (A)

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1310 The next term in the series 2, 5, 10, 17, 26, 37,? is:
(A) 50
(B) 57
(C) 62
(D) 72

Answer

Answer: (A)

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