Community and health psychology Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

PYC3705 - Transformative Counselling Encounters_summary-and-exam-notes.Study Unit 1: Finding your personal space within the module 1.1 Transformative Counselling Encounters and I:  New encounters create new world with new meanings  The new experience can be exciting and unnerving while being life – transforming  Humans are never alone and are shaped by their personal and social histories; past memories, emotions and vibrations  Complexity => assumption of the world/people/...

PYC1501 ASSIGNMENT QUESTION AND ANSWERS 2018- 2021. Question 1 – 6 refer to the following scenario: A tutor for the first-year psychology group is dealing with the topic of impulse conduction in the human nervous system. The tutor gives the students the following questions to test their knowledge of the study material they were asked to prepare for the class. Question 1 The part(s) of the neuron that (is) are responsible for receiving information signals, (is) are called . . . 1. de...

TRANSFORMATIVE COUNSELLING ENCOUNTERS PART 1: BEGINNINGS: CREATING CONTEXT Study Unit 1: Finding your personal space within the module 1.1 Transformative Counselling Encounters and I:  New encounters create new world with new meanings  The new experience can be exciting and unnerving while being life – transforming  Humans are never alone and are shaped by their personal and social histories; past memories, emotions and vibrations  Complexity => assumption of the world/p...

IOP4862 Exam Answers - Summary Managerial and organizational psychology Motivation  Motivation is a psychological process that starts with a physiological or psychological need that activates a behaviour aimed at an incentive  Motivation consists of three elements: - Need: a physiological or psychological deficiency - Drive/motive: an action toward an incentive to alleviate a need - Incentive: anything that alleviates a need and restores a physiological/psychological balance Maslow...

IOP2604_ Exam Paper 2020. Psychological Adjustment In The Work Context. Stress, burnout and anxiety are increasing in the workplace and directly affect employees' ability to work efficiently. Should the onus be on the employer to ensure employee wellness, and consequent maximum productivity? Depression, anxiety and even suicide are on the increase in South Africa. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported in May this year that, globally, 264 million people are suffering from depression,...

PYC2601 Personality Theories Exam Pack 2021. Losita believes that she is from another planet and has come to visit the earth in order to save its inhabitants. She tells you that the reason her psychiatrist says she is psychotic is because she speaks in a language that human beings do not have the intellectual capacity to understand, and he is too defensive to admit his own ignorance and so rather regards her as having a mental disability. How would Rogers explain Losita’s behaviour? (a) Ro...

PYC3702 EXAM PACK 2020. PYC3702 - Abnormal Behaviour And Mental Disorders. With regards to abnormal behaviour, a history of previous suicide attempts and physical assaults are taken into account as risk factors when assessing - - - - -, whereas taking into account the level of intensity of the psychological suffering that the client is experiencing is assessing the client’s - - - - -. 1. deviance; dysfunction 2. dangerousness; distress 3. deviance; dangerous 4. dangerousness; dysfunction...

HMPYC80 MOCK EXAM. Research Methodology. The research consultation company … You own a consultation company that specialises in environmental psychology. The company is called EnviroConsult. You employ a number of social scientists and professional psychologists, but there are also students (psychological interns) who do their practical at the company. Meeting the client … Petrus Motong contacted you to consult on a problem they experience, namely that communities neglect their environ...

PYC3705 EXAM PACK. PYC3705 - Transformative Counselling Encounters. Providing equality of resources and opportunity for all people upholds the ethical principle of ___. 1. veracity 2. autonomy 3. beneficence 4. justice Answer: The correct answer is 4 Refer: Tutorial Letter 202/2/2017 Reasoning: The study guide suggests that clinical and counselling psychologists (and by implication counsellors) need to take into account more than just the ‘traditional values’ of personal growth, pro...

PYC3705_Summary And Exam Notes. Transformative Counselling Encounters. Transformative Counselling Encounters and I:  New encounters create new world with new meanings  The new experience can be exciting and unnerving while being life – transforming  Humans are never alone and are shaped by their personal and social histories; past memories, emotions and vibrations  Complexity => assumption of the world/people/ourselves are subject to re – interpretation, pointing to us t...