Psychology Answers

Using Osgood communication model explain how such a communication plan could be guided

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Explain in details why mass communication will be beneficial to get the messages of the non-profit organisation’s campaign across to school children.

Question 1

As a student, explain one instance where you engaged in intrapersonal communication and one instance where you engaged in interpersonal communication in your studies.

Question 2

Which communication

context helps you to generate brilliant ideas about your studies?

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Introduce your topic, by discussing, “What does it mean to you, to be an African? Would you still be African if you didn’t practice Ubuntu and communal living?”Explain in detail. 

Which of the following characteristics describe a good leader?

A. Self-confidence; good communication skills; open to change; ethical; task

orientated

B. Self-confidence; good communication skills; open to change; ethical; task

and people orientated

C. Accountable; risk prone; judgemental; ethical and people orientated

D. Orientated towards change and improvement; empowering of others;

decisive; risk-taking; task orientated

Leaders can be defined as encompassing which of the following?

A. People with relevant skills and knowledge who influence and empower

others through good communication.

B. People who change the decisions of others.

C. People who empower their followers to perform better.

D. People who have followers.

Match the power phenomenon on the left to its relevant description or example.

1.

Coercive power

A.

A formal and directive power base

demanding immediate compliance

through coercive tactics

2.

Reward power

B. A personal and relational power base

that develops over time as a result of

being respected for the manner in

which followers are treated and tasks

are performed

3.

Legitimate power

C.

A formal power based on employee’s

proneness to improve their

performance when they are rewarded

4. Expert power

D.

A positional power base that is

formalised by executive management

and unquestionably accepted by

employees

5. Referent power

E. A personal power base that is rooted

in the person’s expert skills, knowledge

________ is the integrity, solidarity, social integration, or unity of a group.

A.

Team performance

B.

Group cohesion

C.

Team work

D.

Social loafing

According to the Afrocentric perspective, graduateness includes a critical

understanding of …

A.

our feelings and behaviour has a cause (usually unconscious) and therefore

determined.

B.

observable (i.e., external) behaviour that can only be studied objectively and

scientifically measured.

C.

expectations about the environment and people around us and then we

“test” these and expectations.

D.

African context with its histories, challenges and potential in relation to

globally diverse contexts.

Which theorist stated that treatment is not just fixing what is broken, but also

entails nurturing what is best within people?

A. Rogers

B. Kelly

C. Seligman

D. Strümpfe