Psychology Answers

Piaget believes that the development of a child’s cognitive processes

follows an unstructured natural pattern.

B According to Piaget, individuals adapt to new information by assimilation and

accommodation.

Diets and medical services influence the secular trend phenomenon.

B Exercise and sport participation have an effect on maturation.

To become resilient, an adolescent must have experienced hardship.

B A resilient adolescent must have coped with adversity and succeeded.

Family factors usually aggravate delinquency and contribute to violence in

societies.

B A low socioeconomic status is a sociological factor that causes delinquency

Intrinsically motivated people regard learning as a meaningful activity.

B Extrinsically motivated people have no desire to more about a matter than is

necessary.

A Feelings of depression, failure, shame and guilt are associated with bulimia

nervosa syndrome.

B Bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa is the same condition as described by

the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders). 

The personality of a person influences their decision making.

B Adolescents' attitudes play a part in the choices they make. 

Joseph belongs to a middle class family. He have 4 siblings and parents in his family. He is working in a multinational company with a salary of 40K per month. He is living alone in a rented house near his office. He use to eat from hotels mostly, because he have a tough job schedule. he had an affair in past which ended a few months back. He is mentally disturbed because he was too much attached with the girl. After his breakup he started to smoke cigarettes. Now he is a chain smoker. He often skips his meal. He does not doing any exercise. he also spend some sleepless nights.  Due to his malpractices his health deteriorate a lot and he has diagnosed Hypertension at the age of 30. His doctor refer his case to you as you are a health psychologist. Now you have to modify Jospeh’s behavior that can improve his health as well as quality of life.

You want to start a youth group to fight drug abuse in your community. For the group to be successful, you believe that the group leader should be honest,self confident and energetic. This is an example of ...leadership style.

1.transformational

2.super 

3.charismatic

4.person -trait