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Do you know someone who is a good storyteller? It could be your grandfather, your teacher, or just someone you know. Especially, we are talking about stories that teach a moral lesson, and the language used in telling stories. We want you to find one of these special people in your community and record one of their stories or proverbs or moral lessons. Your discussion should be between 500 - 700 words. You can also use comments on other student's postings as part of your discussion. Remembe...

Read Unit 3 and summarise the following investigations in different paragraphs as your discussion: PARAGRAPH 1 of your discussion – Investigate your name and its origins: o What does your name(s) mean? o Where does it come from? o Do you like your name? Why? or why not? o Has this changed over time? o If you could change your name, what will it be and why will you change it? o Do you think your name(s) had an impact on who you are? PARAGRAPH 2 of your discussion – Interview pe...

PYC4807 - Psychological Assessment 2022 – Semester 1 – Assignment 2 - 2nd Attempt Question 1: A cognitive test is being translated from English to Afrikaans. The forward-translation design is followed, and a group of bilingual experts will compare the source and the target versions of the measure. Thereafter the source version of the test will be administered to source-language monolinguals and the target version to target-language monolinguals to determine the equivalence of these vers...

PYC4807 – Psychological Assessment 2022 – Semester 1 – Assignment 2 - 1st Attempt Question 1: Choose the most correct option. The item discrimination index and the item-total correlation are measures of … 1. the frequency of choosing the correct response to an item 2. the predictive value of an item 3. differential item functioning 4. the extent to which an item measures the same aspect as the total test Question 2: Foxcroft (2004) provides guidelines for the development of...

HMPYC80 – Research Methodology 2022 – Semester 1 – Assignment 3 Question 1: Which of one of the following statements is NOT true about C-studies? C-studies research do NOT ... a) aim to explore or describe without statistical testing and typically use non-random or purposive sampling (NR). b) compare groups or examine relationships between variables by means of some form of statistical hypothesis testing. c) aim to explain phenomena by means of a hypothesis. d) use random sampli...

HMPYC80 – Research Methodology 2022 – Semester 1 – Assignment 2 Question #1: The title contains at least one central psychological construct from the research proposal or study. 1. Absent, incorrect, or completely wrong. 2. Only partially addressed. It does not attain the item requirement or criteria. 3. Sufficiently up to standard in terms of the item criteria. Question #2 The title indicates the research setting or demographic information of the sample population. Any one of...

PYC4808 – Ecosystemic Psychology 2022 – Semester 1 – Assignment 2 Question #1: Systems thinking (also referred to as systems family therapy) is described as counter- cultural and is a shift from the modernist perspective. Danie, a psychology student, describes himself as a modernist thinker. Which of the following premises are consistent with the modernist way of thinking, and which you would expect to be part of Danie’s descriptions of the world: a) Causality is linear b) Causal...

PYC4802 – Psychopathology 2022 – Semester 1 – Assignment 2 Question #1: According to Burke et al. (2019), ethnocentrism… a) refers to judging other people from within one’s own cultural perspective. b) encourages cultural diversity and sensitivity. c) is an important challenge in understanding the role of culture, ethnicity and race in the socio-political and economic development of diverse ethnic and cultural populations. d) is problematic when one views one’s own culture ...

PYC4807 – Psychological Assessment 2022 – Semester 1– Assignment 1 Question #1: In the case of a norm-referenced test the individual’s performance is … a) interpreted in terms of the performance of a representative group b) expressed as a percentage c) normally distributed d) compared to a criterion or standard of performance Question #2 In the article by Gadd and Phipps (2012), they refer to the challenges faced by psychological and, specifically, neuropsychological asse...

HRPYC81 – Research Report (Project 4807) 2022 – Semester 1 – Assignment 30 Question #1: Which specific conspiracy belief does the paper focus on? a) General conspiracy mentality b) Governmental COVID-19 conspiracy c) South African COVID-19 conspiracy d) Political COVID-19 conspiracy Question #2 What are conspiracy beliefs? a) One powerful group is acting in public. b) One powerful individual is acting in secret. c) One powerful group is acting in secret. d) One powerful in...

HRPYC81 – Research Report (Project 4811) 2022 – Semester 1 – Assignment 50 Question #1: Which specific conspiracy belief does the paper focus on? a) General conspiracy mentality b) Governmental COVID-19 conspiracy c) South African COVID-19 conspiracy d) Political COVID-19 conspiracy Question #2 What are conspiracy beliefs? a) One powerful group is acting in public. b) One powerful individual is acting in secret. c) One powerful group is acting in secret. d) One powerful in...

HRPYC81 – Research Report (Project 4808) 2022 – Semester 1 – Assignment 35 Question #1: Which specific conspiracy belief does the paper focus on? a) General conspiracy mentality b) Governmental COVID-19 conspiracy c) South African COVID-19 conspiracy d) Political COVID-19 conspiracy Question #2 What are conspiracy beliefs? a) One powerful group is acting in public. b) One powerful individual is acting in secret. c) One powerful group is acting in secret. d) One powerful in...

HRPYC81 – Research Report (Project 4809) 2022 – Semester 1 – Assignment 40 Question #1: Which specific conspiracy belief does the paper focus on? a) General conspiracy mentality b) Governmental COVID-19 conspiracy c) South African COVID-19 conspiracy d) Political COVID-19 conspiracy Question #2 What are conspiracy beliefs? a) One powerful group is acting in public. b) One powerful individual is acting in secret. c) One powerful group is acting in secret. d) One powerful in...

PYC4807 – Psychological Assessment 2022 – Semester 1 – Assignment 1 Question #1: If an individual obtains a percentile score of 25, it means that … a) the individual obtained a raw score of 25 on the measure b) 25 per cent of the normative group obtained a raw score lower than the individual c) the individual obtained 25 per cent on the measure d) 25 per cent of the normative group obtained a percentage lower than the individual Question #2 In the article by Gadd and Phipps...

HRPYC81 – Research Report (Project 4804) 2022 – Semester 1 – Assignment 20 Question #1: Which specific conspiracy belief does the paper focus on? a) General conspiracy mentality b) Governmental COVID-19 conspiracy c) South African COVID-19 conspiracy d) Political COVID-19 conspiracy Question #2 What are conspiracy beliefs? a) One powerful group is acting in public. b) One powerful individual is acting in secret. c) One powerful group is acting in secret. d) One powerful i...

HMPYC80 – Research Methodology 2022 – Semester 1 – Assignment 1 Question #1: How researchers see social reality is rooted in basic ontological perceptions. For example, interpretivism states that ... a) there is an external reality that can be studied objectively and free of values. The ability to know things as they really are is possible if specific, controlled methods are employed because pursuing these methods will place a necessary check on subjectivity and restrain personal ...

PYC4802 – Psychopathology 2022 – Semester 1 – Assignment 1 Question #1: Circular causality means 1. A causes B and B causes C 2. A causes B and C causes B 3. A and B together cause C 4. A causes B and B causes A Question #2 A psychologist who believes that people behaviour is pre-determined and views human beings as having no freedom of choice might be using the ... model of psychopathology. 1. Biological 2. Psychodynamic 3. Humanistic 4. 1 and 2 Question #3: A psycho...

PYC3705 – Transformative Counselling 2021 – Semester 1 and Semester 2 – Assignment 3 Question #1: Which of the following is NOT a good motivation for becoming a counsellor? 1. you like to give advice 2. you have personal characteristics that you think would make you a good counsellor 3. you have a desire to help others and have done some research on counselling as a career 4. you feel that counselling would be personally rewarding career 5. all of the answers are good reasons to ...

PYC3705 – Transformative Counselling 2021 – Semester 1 and Semester 2 – Assignment 4 Question #1: The concept of reflecting feelings as applied in counselling suggest ... a. that an understanding of the counselling process and its facilitation is something that is accomplished through internal dialogue. b. that counselling practices should reflect detachment of the counsellor’s self and make the process more visible. c. that counsellors should engage in constant scrutiny of “wh...

PYC3704 – Psychological Research 2021 – Semester 1 and Semester 2 – Assignment 3 Question #1: Which of the following are advantages of studying statistical methods in psychology? 1. it leads to a better understanding of the content of psychological theories. 2. it helps us to formulate research questions. 3. it helps us to evaluate whether the patterns we observe in data are due to more than the consequence of chance. 5. it gives insight into the nature of the scientific process. ...