Psychology Answers

Multiple choice questions :
Mahlori's parents are worried because he has started using bad language at home and at school. They decided to stop this behavior by taking 50 cents off Mahlori's pocket money every time he swears. Within a month Mahlori's swearing disappeared. What form of learning is illustrated in this example?
1 operant social learning
2 social observation learning
3 cognitive learning
4 discovery learning

Multiple choice questions :
Which of the following is not by difinition a learned perceptual-motor skill ?
1 to pick up a glass
2 to dive from high diving-board
3 to get the rugby ball from the scrum and pass it to the fly-half
4 to cut a diamond to show off its beaty

Multiple choice questions :
In operant conditioning terms , reinforcement referes to the ...
1 tendency to respond to similar but not identical stimuli
2 unpleasent concequences of a response
3 process that occures when a pleasent or desirable reinforcer follows a response
4 reappearence of a response which seems to have been extinguished

Multiple choice questions :
What kind of learning is traditionally classified as learning by association
1 social learning
2 operant learning
3 cognitive learning
4 observation learning

In a paragraph discuss what is meant by democracy. Discuss both ancient and modern concept of democracy in your outline

Multiple choice questions :
What are the two important characteristics of a psychological test?
1 reliability and mental age
2 validity and reliability
3 intelligence and validity
4 creativity and intelligence

Multiple choice questions :
According to Gardner's theory , performance is intellectual task is determined by ...
1 a general intellectual ability
2 unique specific abilities
3 multiple intelligence
4 contextual intelligence

Multiple choice questions :
Which of the following statements is possible explanation for the finding that highly creative people often do not perform well on traditional tests of intelligence?
1 creativity and intelligence are unrelated abilities
2 creative people are convergent thinkers
3 performance on intelligence tests relies on convergent thinking
4 creative people do not have above average intelligence

Multiple choice questions :
Mmabatho's mother asks why her daughter is having difficulties at school while her step-sister , who lives in the same house , does not. Based on this scenario , you explain to Mmabatho's mother that children who have ... are less likely to obtain similar scores on an intelligence test.
1 the same genetic composition and are raised in similar environments
2 different genetic composition and are raised in the same environments
3 the same genetic composition and are raised in different environments
4 different genetic composition and are raised in different environments

Multiple Question
The notion that people should not waste and consume more than they need to satisfy their basic needs I part of the...1 Sense of personal responsibility, 2. protestant work ethic, 3. post-industrial work ethnic, 4. external locus control of an individual