TMD Unit 1 to 2

Simon is a psychologist who is interested to know how a group of preschool children learn language.  His focus of study is on

• (A) social psychology.

• (B) health psychology

• (C) parental psychology

• (D) developmental psychology

Freud’s concept of mind is often compared to an iceberg, of which two-thirds under water is the

• (A) conscious mind

• (B) unconscious mind

• (C) sub-conscious mind

• (D) semi-conscious mind

Liza gets anxious very easily and always think of negative outcomes and worry unnecessarily. Her friends described her as someone who gets panic for smallest issues as well. This personality shown by Liza is due to her

• (A) tertiary traits

• (B) primary traits

• (C) cardinal traits

• (D) secondary traits

Joseph’s mother will confiscate his handphone if he does not complete his homework on time. To avoid that, Joseph will strive to complete his homework on time. This is an example of

• (A) social conditioning

• (B) operant conditioning

• (C) behaviour conditioning

• (D) operational conditioning.

Whenever Peter fetches his daughter from her enrichment class, he will buy her ice-cream. His daughter gets excited if Peter comes to fetch her instead of her mum or helper as she associates Peter’s arrival with getting an ice-cream.  This is an example of

• (A) stimulus conditioning

• (B) classical conditioning

• (C) behavioural conditioning

• (D) psychological conditioning

In Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the need for having adequate rest is  

• (A) safety needs.

• (B) esteem needs

• (C) physiological needs.

• (D) psychological needs.

Which one of the following is the role of an organisational psychologist?

• (A) Develop recruitment website

• (B) Create new marketing techniques

• (C) Construct performance appraisal instruments

• (D) Conduct survey to know about employees’ motivation.

In the recent years, more people are working remotely and it has become the new norm. This has some implication to work psychologists as they need to 

• (A) identify intercultural influences.

• (B) understand the consequences of unemployment

• (C) know the impact of income and wealth differences.

• (D) focus on effective virtual communication and teamwork

Many studies have shown that having diverse workforce in an organisation is better because

• (A) their attitude is better.

• (B) it is easy to work with them

• (C) they just focus on their work

• (D) they bring variety of experiences

The perspective that stems from the belief that a culturally diverse workforce is a moral duty that must be maintained in order to create a just and reasonable society.

• (A) Decision making perspective.

• (B) Social categorization perspective

• (C) Discrimination and fairness perspective.

• (D) Integration and learning perspective.