Grade 12 Psychology Term Test

Select from below the option that best suited towards Overt behaviour

• Thinking

• Wondering

• Imitating

• Being Sad

Select the option below that best describes a covert behaviour

• Watching

• Blinking

• Smiling

• Remembering

4 Goals - Select the best one which suits for "Description"

• Involves making a detailed record of behavioural observations and organizing the information for future research.

• Psychologists look for regular patterns in behaviour and mental processes. This helps researchers state the causes and tells us why a given event or behaviour occurred.

• This happens when the researcher has identified all the prior conditions that are required for a behaviour or event to occur.

• It is accomplished when researchers know how to apply a principle or change a condition to prevent unwanted occurrences or to bring about desired outcomes.

4 Goals - Select the best one which suits for "Prediction"

• Involves making a detailed record of behavioural observations and organizing the information for future research.

• Psychologists look for regular patterns in behaviour and mental processes. This helps researchers state the causes and tells us why a given event or behaviour occurred.

• This happens when the researcher has identified all the prior conditions that are required for a behaviour or event to occur.

• It is accomplished when researchers know how to apply a principle or change a condition to prevent unwanted occurrences or to bring about desired outcomes.

4 Goals - Select the best one which suits for "Control"

• Involves making a detailed record of behavioural observations and organizing the information for future research.

• Psychologists look for regular patterns in behaviour and mental processes. This helps researchers state the causes and tells us why a given event or behaviour occurred.

• This happens when the researcher has identified all the prior conditions that are required for a behaviour or event to occur.

• It is accomplished when researchers know how to apply a principle or change a condition to prevent unwanted occurrences or to bring about desired outcomes.

4 Goals - Select the best one which suits for "Explanation"

• Involves making a detailed record of behavioural observations and organizing the information for future research.

• Psychologists look for regular patterns in behaviour and mental processes. This helps researchers state the causes and tells us why a given event or behaviour occurred.

• This happens when the researcher has identified all the prior conditions that are required for a behaviour or event to occur.

• It is accomplished when researchers know how to apply a principle or change a condition to prevent unwanted occurrences or to bring about desired outcomes.

Read the following scenario and determine to which of the four goals of psychology:

As the manager at the local fast-food restaurant, you must interview high school students for a job opening using the questions that the head office has given you. ​ ​ ​ (a)  

• Prediction

• Description

• Explanation

• Control

Read the following scenario and determine to which of the four goals of psychology:

Some psychologists believe that more playground accidents occur among young children who watch violent cartoons. _________________

• Prediction

• Description

• Explanation

• Control

Read the following scenario and determine to which of the four goals of psychology:

A daycare worker has developed a teaching program that increases each child’s self-esteem.

• Prediction

• Description

• Explanation

• Control

This discipline of psychology focuses on the idea that all behaviours are learned through interactions with the environment. Behaviours are learned and inherited factors have very little influence.

• Structuralism

• Functionalism

• Psychoanalysis

• Behaviorism

• Psychodynamic theories