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Principles Of Human Psychology Question Paper
Principles Of Human Psychology
Course:Bachelor Of Science In Nursing And Public Health
Institution: Kenyatta University question papers
Exam Year:2009
KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
SECOND SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS 2008/2009
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS FOR DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
(NURSING AND PUBLIC HEALTH)
HNS 204: PRINCIPLES OF HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY
DATE:
Tuesday 31st March 2009
TIME: 2.00pm-4.00pm
INSTRUCTIONS:
MCQS (20MARKS)
1.
Which of the following is true?
a) “Analytic introspection” was a method used to analyze tastes.
b) Behaviourism enhanced the study of the mind
c) Wundt Wilheim was a student of the physiologist Edward Titchener.
d) One of the significant differences among early schools of psychology was
the preconscius mind
2.
Which of the following is false?
a)
Gestalt psychology theorized that the mind does not respond passively to
discrete
external
stimuli.
b)
Functionlists might study how the ability to distinguish different tastes
affects behaviour.
c)
Freud believed in psychic determinism.
d)
B.F. Skinner as a humanistic psychologist stressed the role of the
consequences of behaviour in controlling behaviour.
3.
Which of the following is true?
a)
Psychoanalytic perspective places less emphasis on biological motives or
drives.
b)
Moslow stressed the idea that not all have a free will.
c)
Unlike Gestalt psychology, cognitive psychologists stressed the active role
of the mind in among others organizing perceptions.
d)
The bio psychological perspective stressed the importance of objective
well controlled laboratory studies.
4.
Which of the following is false?
a)
Pre-conscious memories can be retrieved.
b)
Charles Darwin was a “baby biographer”
c)
In Piaget cognitive stages of child development “sensorimotor” stage
precedes “preoperational” stage.
d)
“Transitive inferences” and “conservation” occur during “concrete
operational” stage of child development.
5.
Which of the following is true?
a)
In Erickson’s stages of psychosocial development, “identify versus
inferiority“comes before “initiative versus guilt“.
b)
According to John Bowlby’s attachment theory, attachment behaviour
appears at birth.
c)
About 20% of children are “difficult” in temperament.
d)
“Altruism may be classified as a “central trait”
6.
Which one of the following is false?
a)
One is “rationalizing” when in reacting to the death of a loved one; one
says “every one must die sometime”
b)
“Projection” is attributing ones undesirable feelings to others
c)
“Regression” is behaviour that has relieved anxiety in the past.
d)
“Sublimation” is expression of sexual impulses through indirect socially
acceptable outlets.
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7.
Which one of the following is true?
a)
“Nativisim” was the philosophical position that knowledge is
partly environmental
b)
Aristotle favoured “rationalism” over “empiricism” approach.
c)
St Augustine proclaimed “ I think and therefore I am”
d)
“Structuralism” grew from work of the pioneers of the first
laboratory of psychology.
8.
Which one of the following is false?
a)
According to Freud’s theory, “Fixation” is a stage of psychosexual
development.
b)
“Libido” is the sexual energy of the ego in Freud’s assumption.
c)
“Anal stage” occurs around one year of infancy.
d)
The attraction of the girl child to her father is known as “electra
complex”
9.
Which one of the following is true?
a)
James-lange theory of emotion argues that an event causes
physiological arousal first and then we interpret this arousal.
b)
According to Schachtes Singer theory, an event causes
physiological arousal later before reasoning and emotion.
c)
The Lazarus theory of emotion states that a thought must come
after a motion or physiological arousal.
d)
Cannon-Bard theory of emotions argues that we experience
physiological arousal and emotion separation.
10.
Which one of the following is false?
a)
In Erickson’s stages of social-emotional development learning
“initiative vs. isolation” comes before “intimacy vs. isolation”.
b)
“Learning generativity” vs. “self absorption” occurs in middle
adulthood according to Erickson.
c)
When a person enjoys a sense of satisfaction by reflecting on a life
well lived, he is the “integrity vs. despair” stage according to
Erickson.
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d)
Learning basic trust vs mistrust occurs in the first year of life.
11.
Which one of the following is true?
a)
“Assimilation” is a cognitive process that revises existing
“schema’
into
new
information.
b)
A child exhibits “egocentrism” when they apply previously learned
relationships to infer new ones.
c)
According to Piaget, “transductive” reasoning occurs together with
transitive inferences”
d)
According to Piaget, most people reach maturity after 25years.
12. Which one of the following is true?
a) According to Piaget, in “assimilation” we revive existing schema to fit
in new information.
b) The “sensorimtor stage” occurs in infancy
c) “Transductive reasoning” occurs during “concrete operational stage”
d) “Conservation” occurs during the “pre-operational” stage.
13. Which one of the following is false
1.
In “analytical introspection” subjects report the contents of their
unconscious mental experiences.
2.
Charles Darwin proposed a process of natural selection.
3.
“Freudian slips” originated from psychoanalysis
4.
Stanley schachter was the pioneer of the two factors theory of
emotion.
14.
Which one of the following is true?
a)
In social-comparison theory, happiness involves comparing our
circumstances to the others.
b)
John B. Watson was like Ivan Parlov a pioneers functionalist
c)
In Moslow’s hierarchy of needs safety and love are at different
levels.
d)
In Gestalt psychology the method of study is by observations.
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