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    Knowledge Check-in: Perspectives in Psychology (PSED5111)

    Name and Surname: __________________________

    Course: ______________________ Group: ____________

    Question 1: Which of the following is not correct about perspectives in psychology?

    a) The way someone sees something.


    b) Not everyone is allowed to have their own perspective.
    c) It can refer to all senses.
    d) Perspectives can change as we receive more information.

    Question 2: Why are perspectives in psychology important for children?

    a) To be able to make life-changing decisions.


    b) To be able to change other children’s opinions and perspectives.
    c) To make sense of the world around them

    Question 3: Why are perspectives in psychology important for educators?

    a. To change children’s and colleagues’ minds about topics.


    b. To understand children’s and colleagues’ views and opinions.
    c. To disrespect people’s opinions and judge people.

    Question 4: What is the definition of a psychological paradigm

    a. A story about psychology.


    b. A standard perspective or set of ideas and a way of looking at something.
    c. Animism.
    d. A perspective that remains unchanged over time.

    Question 5: Which paradigm was one of the first known paradigms

    a. Humanistic Paradigm
    b. Psychobiological Paradigm
    c. Animism
    d. Empiricism.

    Question 6: What is Animism?


    a. When animals are used in experiments in psychology
    b. When children act like animals.
    c. When inanimate objects are given animate characteristics.
    d. When experiments are done on animals for psychology.

    Question 7: Choose the correct statement regarding Rationalism/Cartesian Dualism.


    a. The mind and body are both physical entities
    b. The body is a physical entity, and the mind is a non-physical
    entity
    c. The mind and body do not interact with each other.

    Question 8: What is not correct with regard to empiricism?


    a. It is the search for truth through experience and observation.
    b. Viewed as a philosophy rather than a method.
    c. Entails investigation of a research question, investigation of results and accepting or rejecting an
    hypothesis.
    d. There is an interaction between the person and the environment.
    Question 9: What is correct regarding the Id from the psychodynamic perspective?
    a. Operates pleasure principle
    b. Conscience- is the voice in our head that tells us what is right
    and wrong.
    c. Mostly unconscious.

    Question 10: What is correct regarding the Ego in the psychodynamic perspective?
    a. Primitive and instinctive components of personality
    b. Conscience- is the voice in our head that tells us what is right
    and wrong.
    c. Part of the mind that serves to control behaviour through
    perception, cognition, and memory. Mediator

    Question 11: What is the correct example of negative reinforcement?


    a. Taking away a child's video game if they misbehave.
    b. Shouting at a child and embarrassing them.
    c. Taking away the detention if the child finishes their homework.

    Question 12: What is incorrect about humanistic theory?


    a. Abraham Maslow and Wilhelm Wundt are founders
    b. Favours positive growth through experience and choice.
    c. The end goal is self-actualization.

    Question 13: Which is the correct order of needs in Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
    a. physiological needs, safety, and security, love, and belonging,
    self-actualization, self-esteem
    b. physiological needs, safety and security, self-esteem, love and
    belonging, self-actualization
    c. physiological needs, self-esteem, love and belonging, safety
    and security, self-actualization.

    Question 14: Which of the following is incorrect with regard to the psychobiological perspective?
    a. Human is viewed as a set of interacting systems rather than the
    holistic human.
    b. How cognition (what we are thinking) and mood (how we are
    feeling) combine with biological events.
    c. Studying how mental disorders can be an outcome of damage
    to the brain
    d. Human is viewed as a whole and how the systems work
    together.

    Question 15: Which is not an important element of evolutionary psychology?


    a. Differential Parental Development
    b. Adaptation
    c. Inclusive fitness
    d. Kin selection.

    Question 16: Is classical conditioning voluntary or involuntary?


    a. Voluntary
    b. Involuntary.
    Question 17: Which of the following is incorrect regarding the humanistic perspective according
    to Carl Rogers?
    a. Person has an innate need for personal growth.
    b. Personality develops as a product of our striving to satisfy our need for approval by ourselves
    and others.
    c. For a person to grow they need an environment that provides
    them with acceptance and empathy.

    Question 18: Who was responsible for Structuralism?

    a) Wilhem Wundt
    b) Sigmund Freud
    c) William James
    d) Rene Descartes

    Question 19: What is structuralism?

    a) Focused on the process of perception and learning as conscious activities.


    b) Science of immediate experience through introspection (looking inwards)
    c) Search for truth through experience and observation.

    Question 20: What is functionalism?

    a) Internal Perception- Examining your own experiences.


    b) Relies on adaptation, examining the functioning organism within its existing or changing
    environment.
    c) Science of immediate experience through introspection (looking inwards)

    Question 21: What is correct regarding the Super Ego in the psychodynamic perspective?

    a. Operates moral principles and provides us with moral code


    b. Always remains the same- unconscious
    c. Present since birth.

    Question 22: Which of the following is incorrect regarding classical conditioning?


    a. An active behavior that generates consequences or rewards
    b. Voluntary and involuntary response
    c. Involuntary response

    Question 23: What is the correct explanation of the cognitive perspective?


    a. Computer analogy means that our brains need computers to work.
    b. Attempts to explain cognitions – thoughts, language, decision making, attention and decision-
    making that inform our daily lives.
    c. Cannot be scientifically studied.

    Question 24: Which perspective focuses on the way a personality develops as a product of us
    striving to satisfy our need for approval by ourselves and others?
    a. Behaviorist perspective
    b. Animism
    c. Psychobiological perspective
    d. Humanistic perspective

    Question 25: What is self-actualisation?


    a. When you win at everything
    b. When you have a self-image that matches the ideal self
    c. When you are satisfied with your life and your achievemen

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