PYC4804 EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2024/2025

PYC4808 EXAM PREPARATION WELL STRUCTURTED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH NOTES YEAR 2020/2021 INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGY (Western) vs SYSTEMIC PSYCHOLOGY Most of us have been socialised into a Western, Lockean scientific tradition. Most individual psychology approaches rest on the assumpti...

TABLE OF CONTENT How first order cybernetics (FOC); second order cybernetics (SOC) and African epistemologies differ in their approaches to health and pathology The ways in which one views the concept of reality, and health and pathology, according to a first order cybernetic perspective, a sec...

ECOSYSTEMIC PSYCHOLOGY ASSIGNMENT NO: 06 ECOSYSTEMIC PSYCHOLOGY ASSIGNMENT NO: 06

INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGY (Western) vs SYSTEMIC PSYCHOLOGY Most of us have been socialised into a Western, Lockean scientific tradition. Most individual psychology approaches rest on the assumptions of this linear worldview. Systems theory directs our attention away from the individual and moves towa...

Notes PYC4808 Ecosystemic Psychology NOTES: Some Q and A's from Past Papers ECOSYSTEMIC PSYCHOLOGY CHAPTER ONE – TWO DIFFERENT WORLD VIEWS 1. Individual Psychology VS. Family Systems Theory INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGY  Westernized roots  Western, Lockean, scientic traditon  Socialis...

Case Study Alisha (14 years old) was referred to a psychologist, for psychotherapeutic intervention, because of concerning eating behaviour. Her mom, Tisha (45 years old) reported that she has found chocolate bar wrappings hidden in Alisha’s room, and has also noticed the remnants of vomit in t...