Psychology Answers

Thabo has the ambition to study the social realities of people because this will

help him to become a social worker and it will also allow him to serve the society

he grew up in. The statement describes ______.

A. integrated regulation motivation

B. least autonomous extrinsic motivation

C. more autonomous motivation

D. introjected regulation motivation

Which theory has had a massive influence on the use of psychological

assessment when selecting employees?

A. cognitive

B. trait

C. behaviouristic

D. humanistic

You work in the city of Tshwane's public relations department and you have been tasked with organising a media tour for major media houses to promote the new taxi rank. Explain how you would plan and execute the media tour using the reading material supplied

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. Strümpfer

In the theory on psychological well-being, the term "sense of coherence" refers to

______.

A. protected use of strengths

B. positive, absorbed commitment

C. enduring confidence to cope

D. confidence in capacities to achieve, like self-efficacy

Based on Antonovsky’s concept of salutogenesis, counsellors will try to facilitate

awareness within employees who experience emotional and other problems in

order to find the power within themselves and in their environments which they

may have utilised in the past and in other circumstances to enable them to

function and perform well. This process of having resistance in difficult times can

be referred to as ______.

A. learned resourcefulness

B. non-specific action

C. thought-action tendency

D. generalised resistance resource

Which one of the concepts of psychological and social well-being in the four

alternatives explains the behaviour and attitude of the person in the following

example? “Cecilia finds that contributing effectively to her community is a great

source of comfort to her”.

A. Social contribution

B. Self-acceptance

C. Social actualisation

D. Social coherence

What is meant by the concept “reinforcement”?

A.

When a stimulus presented before a specific behaviour increases the

probability of the occurrence of that specific behaviour

B.

When a stimulus increases the intensity of the probability of the occurrence

of that specific behaviour

C.

When a stimulus presented after a specific behaviour increases the rate or

probability of that behaviour

D.

When a stimulus presented simultaneously to a specific behaviour increases

the probability of that behaviour

Observational learning is also known as ______

A.

manipulation.

B.

modelling.

C.

operant conditioning.

D.

classical conditioning.