LIVINGSTONE SCHOOL OF NURSING

END OF YEAR PSYCHOLOGY TEST

TIME ALLOIWED 1 HR 30 MIN

DATE 12/08/09

INSTRUCTIONS TO THE CANDIDATES

THIS PAPER COMPRISES FOUR {4} SECTIONS

1. ANSWERALL THEQUESTIONS
2. WRITE YOUR NAME ON EVERY PAGE
SECTION A

DEFINITIONS

Define the following terms

1. Behavior

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2. Infancy

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3. Operant conditioning

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4. Nature

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5. Nurture

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6. Motivation

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7. Schema

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8. Learning

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9. Oedipus

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10. Personality
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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS.

YOU ARE REQUIRED TO ENCIRCLE THE MOST APPROPRIATE ANSWER.

1. Behaviors that are usually considered to be voluntary and under the control of our
consciousness are
a. Operants
b. Responding
c. Conditioning
d. Metaphor
2. The Russian psychologist who discovered the way learning is called
a. Freud
b. Edward Thorndike
c. Ivan Pavlov
d. B.F.Skinner
3. The Psychoanalytical Theorist who proposed eight stages of development is called
a. Erikson
b. Piaget
c. Freud
d. Bandura
4. The direction to see things from any perspective is
a. Ego
b. Id
c. Super ego
d. Egocentrism.
5. Motives that arise, from the physiological state of the organism are as follows except.
a. Love
b. Sleep
c. Hunger
d. Self actualization
 SECTION B COMPLETION OF ITEMS.

1. The growth and………………………………………………………of a children can be disrupted by a

change and or abnormal development.
2. ………………………………… conditioning is a method developed by Ivan Pavlov to produce a
particular response to a previously neutral stimulus.
3. According to Freud’s stages of personality development in children, the child enters the
……………………stage after passing through the anal stage.
4. Punishment has to be combined with ………………………………………..to reinforce behavior
5. The pre-operational stage or pre-concrete stage is concerned
with………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
6. The cognitive development of children were the sensory, pre motor andconcrete stages
were proposed was developed by…………………………………………………….

SECTION C. ANSWER TRUE OR FALSE.

1. Psychology is a study of mental illness …………………….

2. Psychology is a study of behavior …………………….
3. Psychology helps the Nurse to understand interaction skills …………………….
4. Defensive strategies involves facing the reality of a situation …………………...
5. All infants have the ability to learn the spoken language …………………….
6. Rationalization is giving good reasons for one’s action …………………….
7. Attitude is the same as bad behavior …………………….
8. Actualization is an attempt to gain detachment ……………………..
9. Sympathy is one of the qualities of a councilor ……………………..
10. Classical conditioning is also known as pavlovion conditioning …………………
SECTION D.

Answer parts of the question.

a. Write an essay explaining why in a given class of student nurses, who have
been taught by same tutors still end up scoring different examination
grades in spite of them attending all the lectures at the same time.
b. Discuss how you are going to conduct a counseling session of your
classmate who has fallen pregnant.
c. Discuss Ivan Pavlov classical conditioning theory and indicate how it would
help you as a learner faced with different situations.