Exam (elaborations)
Intro to Psychology Exam 1
- Course
- PSY 111
- Institution
- Des Moines Area Community College
These are the questions and answers to the short answer portion of exam 1 in the course, Intro to Psychology.
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Short Answer Questions for Exam 1 (8 points each)1. Describe three-four suggestions for improving your time management
skills that were
identified in chapter 1. What are some potential reasons why you may or
may not be
successful in implementing these suggestions? What would these
suggestions look like
for your life specifically?
To have better time management I could log my time and how I spend it
each day, create to-do lists, and reward myself after I complete something.
Some potential reasons I may not be successful at implementing these
strategies are potentially setting unrealistic goals, which may cause me to
give up, over rewarding, which could lead to a lack of discipline, and
overloading my schedule with too many tasks, leading to unnecessary stress.
2. Many graduate students, when formulating their theses or dissertations,
opt to use survey research or interviews as their primary research method.
What are the primary advantages and limitations of doing a survey, and can
you think of why it may be of particular use to a student? Include at least
three advantages and three disadvantages (limitations) for survey research.
What is a specific research question you can investigate with a survey?
Provide a specific example.
The advantages of doing a survey are that it is cheaper, data is easily
quantifiable, and allows for large sample sizes. Disadvantages for surveys
are that they often have low response rates, often do not capture the full
nuances of responses, and respondents may have self-report bias. A specific
research question I can answer with a survey is, “How does personality
impact the voting patterns of young adults?”
3. Contrast emotion-focused and problem-focused coping strategies (define).
Provide an
effective and ineffective example of each coping strategy for taking this test.
You should
have four examples total.
Emotion-focused coping strategies focus on managing the emotions of a
situation rather than trying to change the situation itself. Problem-focused
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