Psychology Answers

You’re planning a surprise birthday party at work for your supervisor and have invited your whole team. After sending out an email to your team members asking them to chip in for a card, decorations and a cake, you’ve only received enough to cover the cost of the cake. What do you do?

For: Forget the card and decorations and just get the cake, since that’s all the money everyone chipped in will cover.

Against: Decide to cancel the party since no one seems that interested but keep the money they’ve already contributed for the next team member’s birthday.

Describe how leaners think,learn and take responsibility for their own learning.

The role of a teacher in the teaching -learning experience is to?

Behaviorism theory suggests that behaviour observed is a results of?

Explain how children learn and develop a wide range of learning activities and resources that facilitate integrated learning and hostilic development

Suggest ways to improve peer relations?

The scientific method is a method of inquiry that helps us understand nature around and within us. When we talk about “science” as only one way to explain nature, and psychology, in particular, as one way to explain human behavior, what do you think this means? Can you think of other ways that we have used to explain behavior?

Psychologists and scientists use the words “empirical evidence”, “empirical research“, and “empiricism” in ‘scientific studies’. But do we, as consumers and users of ‘scientific information’ understand what these mean?

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary (2014) defines the word “empirical” as:

1: originating in or based on observation or experience <empirical data>

2: relying on experience or observation alone often without due regard for system and theory <an empirical basis for the theory>

3: capable of being verified or disproved by observation or experiment <empirical laws>”

Answer the follow questions:

What parts of our bodies do we rely upon when gathering empirical evidence?

Would you consider your day to day living experience and observations as part of empirical evidence? Why?

1.     From the perspective of an advertising executive: How might knowledge of classical conditioning be useful in creating an advertising campaign? (5 marks)

2.     Explain how does the theory of Bandura’s self-efficacy complements the Locke’s Goal setting theory? Explain with example. (5 marks)

Sandra, a 13 year old girl, has been banned from her school football team after a confrontation with an opponent in a match. Sandra pushed and kicked the other girl to the floor after there was contact between them when they challenged for the ball in the air. The Head teacher blames the behavior of professional footballers for setting a bad example to young players when they watch football on television.

      (I) Identify the psychological content in the above scenario.                 

      (II) Suggest a field of psychology which deals these kinds of problems.