Psychology Answers

COVID -19 Pandemic is a menace which did not affect the world only but hit hard organizations and specifically employees to a large extend who’s personal and their family livelihood has now been put in the balance. As a student who is taking industrial Psychology this semester explain how you would guide and counsel the employees in your organization on the Management of the changes affecting them due to COVID-19 citing case examples you are familiar with. (10marks)

We all behave differently because of different life predispositions which we have no control over. With this in mind and using case examples describe the application of any three personality theories. (10mks)

Industrial Psychology is a unit which is not only supposed to be taught to employees at the workplace but also to the community/family members who stay with these employees so that the family/community may understand the kind of life experiences which these employees go through their work environment both mental, physical, emotional and psychological so that they may understand them better and co-exist thus helping them to cope with work-life balance and reduce the sad state of the current affairs where work frustrated employees take their work bitterness, depression and stress to the community and specifically their families with some of them killing their family first then committing suicide as witnessed in the present occurrences in the family. With this in mind by use of relevant case examples, explain the place/role of Industrial Psychology in Human Resource Management in trying to secure a productive all-round healthy workforce. (15marks).

Which of the following can be regarded as an event that may promote interaction among children.

Choose the correct option below that is related to this statement:

It is used to determine the child’s holistic development in order to establish if there are delays or not.

Discuss the role of the school as a social institution and argue the very different views held by the functionalists and conflict theorists in this regard.  (50)

A       Elkind stated that adolescents’ egocentrism manifests in the creation of an imaginary audience and a personal fable.

B       Piaget’s theory is not based on the premise that learning is the learner’s construction of meaning.

A Masters student from UNISA wants to undergo a study that wants to explore and account for the popularity of Black Panther among subaltern Black South African women in the predominantly Black township of Soweto. The study is an audience reception analysis and is interpretive in nature. Its assumption is that reality is socially constructed and it can only be known through methods that allow the researcher to view the world from the participants’ perspective (Nieuwenhuis, 2012:55). The study departs from the premise that the social world is not independent of the meanings that members of society use to account and constitute their reality. In this light, what methodology was used for exploring audience readings or interpretations of Black Panther from the context of their everyday lives. Elaborate more on the methodology by giving its advantages and disadvantages.

Consider the following scenario: 

You have a five-year-old daughter who suddenly refuses to go to bed on time. She comes up with the classic excuses, needs a story, a song, a kiss, a glass of water, to use the bathroom…then when all appeals are exhausted, moves into the toughest thing for a parent to defend against: monsters!

You suspect that she is not really frightened and that this is just another delay tactic. You even give her a water pistol to shoot the monsters, but these just results in damp posters on her walls. You need to find a way to get your child to go to bed on time.

Your task is to draw on behaviorist principles learned in Chapter 2 to create a plan for modifying your child's behavior.

I'm a newly public relations practitioner how do I introduce myself to my colleagues and orientate myself using formal communication? Please provide examples as well