Part II: General Psychology: Guide Questions / Revised, 2015

VI.  Intelligence

1. Why do you call a person intelligent? Is your concept of intelligence similar to or different from what you have learned in your general psychology class?

2. What does IQ means?

3. What is mean? median? mode?

4. Differentiate an aptitude test from an achievement test.

5. Is there a "sex difference" in intelligence?

VII.  Learning

1. Define learning.

2. State and explain Thorndike's laws on learning: a) law of exercise and b) law of effect.

3. Discuss reinforcement and extinction in relation to how they were used in classical conditioning and operant conditioning.

4. Describe Pavlov’s classic experiment on a dog as subject.

5. What is modeling in learning?

VIII.  Motivation

1. What is goal-directed behavior in motivation?

2. What is a biological drive as distinguished from a psycho-social need?

3. What is a drive as distinguished from a goal?

4. Explain Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

5. Name one social situation associated with the following needs: a) need prestige, b) need security, c) need affiliation and d) need power

IX.  Emotions

1. Define emotion.

2. Differentiate temperament and mood.

3. Name three physiological effects of emotions.

4. Name three physiological accompaniment of fear.

5. State and explain the cognitive theory of emotion.

X.  Frustration and Conflict

1. What is frustration?

2. State and explain three types of conflict. Provide two examples for each type of conflict.

3. Differentiate the following: a) aggression and reaction formation; and b) compensation and sublimation

4. What is the essential difference between neurosis and psychosis?

5. When does the use of defence mechanisms become a threat or danger to the individual's mental health?

6. Name and describe three types of neuroses.

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