PYC2614
EXAM
PACK
2025
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1. The learning outcomes of Learning Unit 1 do NOT include this outcome:
(a) Define the concept of “community” in various contexts.
(b) Explain the focus of community psychology as a sub-discipline.
(c) Train the student as a fully-fledged professional that can perform and implement formal
community interventions.
(d) Discuss the importance and relevance of context to understanding community
psychology.
2. What is the primary focus of community psychology as a sub-discipline?
(a) Understanding individual behaviour using individual therapy.
(b) Using existential therapy to understand human behaviour.
(c) Promoting individual achievement.
(d) Enhancing the well-being of communities.
3. Which one of the following statements best characterises the concept of
"community" in various
contexts?
(a) It refers to geographical locations and limits the scope of community interventions.
(b) It excludes social connections and shared identity.
(c) It encompasses social connections, shared identity, and geographical locations.
(d) It is limited to online and inter-connected communities.
4. Stevens (2013) speaks of “community psychologies” (heterogeneous) as opposed
to a singular “community psychology". This is because ...
(a) European countries have often been the destination for refugees and exiles.
(b) community psychology in Latin America grew in the form of liberation theology and
resistance to USA imperialism.
(c) it is more appropriate to think of community psychology as having multiple histories.
(d) community psychology was formalised as a separate subdiscipline at the 1965
5. Nelson and Prilleltensky (2010) refer to community psychology as the “critical”
study of people in context. It is also defined as the “critical” study of people in
contexts directed towards the common aim of improving community conditions and
promoting psychological wellbeing. “Critical” in this case refers to …
(a) a naïve alignment to Eurocentric theories and epistemologies.
(b) the wholesale importation of conceptual categories and theories from the West, without
regard to the many and varied local contexts in Southern Africa.
(c) a continuous process that includes self-reflection.
(d) the centering of European cultures as the centre of civilisation; and erasing the
contributions of other cultures to world history through the process of cultural colonisation.
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6. From the perspective of the modern Western scientific method …
(a) it is clear that science tends to cater for the values of particularly middle- and upper-class
white males and the ideology of capitalism.
(b) it is possible to discover objective truth once the methods of research are refined and
properly applied.
(c) life is viewed as communal and personhood (who a person is) is defined in relation to the
community, not the self.
(d) people are the (best) experts on their own lives and on their local communities.
7. The following statement is NOT correct with regard to worldviews, epistemologies,
and the understanding of psychological phenomena.
(a) There are Western and non-Western epistemologies (worldviews/ways of viewing reality)
on understanding psychological phenomena and community.
(b) The mainstream modern psychology epistemology emanates from the Western way of
viewing reality.
(c) Mainstream modern psychology claims to function as a value-free science without any
political undertones.
(d) The bio-medical model relies on the assumptions of cause and effect and is embedded in
the African psychology.
8.In the worldview of an African psychology …
(a) it is assumed that treating the biological cause, usually by pharmacological treatment, will
produce the desired effects.
(b) knowledge is gained primarily through separation and abstraction.
(c) parental responsibilities also reside with the extended family and the community.
(d) the self is seen as a self-contained or independent individual, without regard for other
cultural perspectives, knowledge, ideas, values, and practices.
9. Community psychology practitioners can choose from a range of intervention
models based on their values, beliefs, professional orientation, context, and the
needs of the community (Visser, 2012). These roles and functions do NOT include …
(a) formal registration with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) as a
community psychologist.
(b) being an advocate, an advisor, and negotiator on behalf of the oppressed or
disempowered community.
(c) being a consultant to the community, to help with difficulties such as teenage pregnancy,
domestic violence, or dealing with crime in the community.
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(d) being a participant and conceptualiser who is involved in the community processes by
trying to help through research, as well as understand, and change such processes.
10. The most dominant theoretical framework in the mental health model/approach is
the:
(a) bio-medical framework, which conceptualises mental health problems as diseases.
(b) bio-psychosocial framework, which considers biological, social, and psychological
factors.
(c) ecosystems framework that understands mental health as a function of various
interacting systems.
(d) public health model that follows a scientific approach to disease prevention and the
promotion of individual and social wellbeing, which operates at a level beyond clinical
medical ideas of health.
11. Intervention models refer to ways of conceptualising and understanding
psychosocial problems based on specific theories, which also propose ways of
intervening to solve such problems. The liberation model in community psychology
…
(a) emphasises prevention as a guiding principle to interventions rather than the curative
mainstream models of intervention.
(b) was strongly influenced by Charles Darwin’s writings.
(c) conceptualises mental health problems as diseases.
(d) aims to reformulate human relationships by challenging oppressive structures or
relationships that continue to promote inequality, oppression, and discrimination.
12. The concept of prevention comes from the field of …
(a) family law.
(b) public health.
(c) political sciences.
(d) communication sciences.
13. According to Ahmed and Suffla (2007), the mental health model focuses on the
following two main areas:
(a) Adaption and succession.
(b) Systems thinking and prevention.
(c) Interdependence and individuals.
(d) Community or the greater population and prevention.
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EXAM
PACK
2025
, lOMoARcPSD|19139637
55352480
1. The learning outcomes of Learning Unit 1 do NOT include this outcome:
(a) Define the concept of “community” in various contexts.
(b) Explain the focus of community psychology as a sub-discipline.
(c) Train the student as a fully-fledged professional that can perform and implement formal
community interventions.
(d) Discuss the importance and relevance of context to understanding community
psychology.
2. What is the primary focus of community psychology as a sub-discipline?
(a) Understanding individual behaviour using individual therapy.
(b) Using existential therapy to understand human behaviour.
(c) Promoting individual achievement.
(d) Enhancing the well-being of communities.
3. Which one of the following statements best characterises the concept of
"community" in various
contexts?
(a) It refers to geographical locations and limits the scope of community interventions.
(b) It excludes social connections and shared identity.
(c) It encompasses social connections, shared identity, and geographical locations.
(d) It is limited to online and inter-connected communities.
4. Stevens (2013) speaks of “community psychologies” (heterogeneous) as opposed
to a singular “community psychology". This is because ...
(a) European countries have often been the destination for refugees and exiles.
(b) community psychology in Latin America grew in the form of liberation theology and
resistance to USA imperialism.
(c) it is more appropriate to think of community psychology as having multiple histories.
(d) community psychology was formalised as a separate subdiscipline at the 1965
5. Nelson and Prilleltensky (2010) refer to community psychology as the “critical”
study of people in context. It is also defined as the “critical” study of people in
contexts directed towards the common aim of improving community conditions and
promoting psychological wellbeing. “Critical” in this case refers to …
(a) a naïve alignment to Eurocentric theories and epistemologies.
(b) the wholesale importation of conceptual categories and theories from the West, without
regard to the many and varied local contexts in Southern Africa.
(c) a continuous process that includes self-reflection.
(d) the centering of European cultures as the centre of civilisation; and erasing the
contributions of other cultures to world history through the process of cultural colonisation.
Downloaded by Jonah Njuguna ()
, lOMoARcPSD|19139637
55352480
6. From the perspective of the modern Western scientific method …
(a) it is clear that science tends to cater for the values of particularly middle- and upper-class
white males and the ideology of capitalism.
(b) it is possible to discover objective truth once the methods of research are refined and
properly applied.
(c) life is viewed as communal and personhood (who a person is) is defined in relation to the
community, not the self.
(d) people are the (best) experts on their own lives and on their local communities.
7. The following statement is NOT correct with regard to worldviews, epistemologies,
and the understanding of psychological phenomena.
(a) There are Western and non-Western epistemologies (worldviews/ways of viewing reality)
on understanding psychological phenomena and community.
(b) The mainstream modern psychology epistemology emanates from the Western way of
viewing reality.
(c) Mainstream modern psychology claims to function as a value-free science without any
political undertones.
(d) The bio-medical model relies on the assumptions of cause and effect and is embedded in
the African psychology.
8.In the worldview of an African psychology …
(a) it is assumed that treating the biological cause, usually by pharmacological treatment, will
produce the desired effects.
(b) knowledge is gained primarily through separation and abstraction.
(c) parental responsibilities also reside with the extended family and the community.
(d) the self is seen as a self-contained or independent individual, without regard for other
cultural perspectives, knowledge, ideas, values, and practices.
9. Community psychology practitioners can choose from a range of intervention
models based on their values, beliefs, professional orientation, context, and the
needs of the community (Visser, 2012). These roles and functions do NOT include …
(a) formal registration with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) as a
community psychologist.
(b) being an advocate, an advisor, and negotiator on behalf of the oppressed or
disempowered community.
(c) being a consultant to the community, to help with difficulties such as teenage pregnancy,
domestic violence, or dealing with crime in the community.
Downloaded by Jonah Njuguna ()
, lOMoARcPSD|19139637
55352480
(d) being a participant and conceptualiser who is involved in the community processes by
trying to help through research, as well as understand, and change such processes.
10. The most dominant theoretical framework in the mental health model/approach is
the:
(a) bio-medical framework, which conceptualises mental health problems as diseases.
(b) bio-psychosocial framework, which considers biological, social, and psychological
factors.
(c) ecosystems framework that understands mental health as a function of various
interacting systems.
(d) public health model that follows a scientific approach to disease prevention and the
promotion of individual and social wellbeing, which operates at a level beyond clinical
medical ideas of health.
11. Intervention models refer to ways of conceptualising and understanding
psychosocial problems based on specific theories, which also propose ways of
intervening to solve such problems. The liberation model in community psychology
…
(a) emphasises prevention as a guiding principle to interventions rather than the curative
mainstream models of intervention.
(b) was strongly influenced by Charles Darwin’s writings.
(c) conceptualises mental health problems as diseases.
(d) aims to reformulate human relationships by challenging oppressive structures or
relationships that continue to promote inequality, oppression, and discrimination.
12. The concept of prevention comes from the field of …
(a) family law.
(b) public health.
(c) political sciences.
(d) communication sciences.
13. According to Ahmed and Suffla (2007), the mental health model focuses on the
following two main areas:
(a) Adaption and succession.
(b) Systems thinking and prevention.
(c) Interdependence and individuals.
(d) Community or the greater population and prevention.
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