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PYC2601 EXAM PACK 2025 {DETAILED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS }
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- Personality Theories
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- University Of South Africa
PYC2601 EXAM PACK 2025 {DETAILED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS }
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lOMoAR cPSD| 49074884JADIE-LEE MOODLY (UNISA STUDENT) - ANSWERS MAY NOT BE A 100% CORRECT SO PLEASE WORK ON IT
YOURSELF – THESE ARE JUST MY STUDY NOTES - (REPEATED QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN INDICATED IN RED)
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JADIE-LEE MOODLY (UNISA STUDENT) - ANSWERS MAY NOT BE A 100% CORRECT SO PLEASE WORK ON IT
YOURSELF – THESE ARE JUST MY STUDY NOTES - (REPEATED QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN INDICATED IN RED)
FREUD:
1. The term "conscience" is used in Freud's theory to refer to
1. The social dimension of the individual - for example, someone has a strong or a weak personality
2. The punishing element of the superego
3. The person's emotions and feelings and the way in which he or she shows and handles them in his or her
interaction with the environment
4. The relatively stable organisation of all physical, psychological and spiritual characteristics that determine the
individual's behaviour in interaction with the environment
2. Is anxiety about actual dangers in the external environment?
1. Reality anxiety
2. Internationalism
3. Neurotic anxiety
4. Situationalism
3. In Freudian terminology, cathexis refers to
1. The psychic energy that is transferred onto appropriate objects of drive satisfaction in a way that makes these
objects attractive or desirable
2. A sexual climax
3. The release the ego experiences when it is freed from the conflicting interplay of the id, the physical reality and
the superego
4. The cathartic relief of tension after a long build-up of tension due to delayed drive satisfaction
4. Thabo is faced with the conflict of sexually desiring his best friend's wife. According to Freud, the most effective
strategy Thabo could employ to deal with this conflict is to
1. Resist the temptation and repress his drive out of loyalty to his friend
2. Fully satisfy his desire by secretly having sex with his best friend's wife
3. Deny that he has any such desire by becoming convinced that his best friend's wife is actually quite unattractive
4. Sublimate his desire for his best friend's wife by having sex with his own wife
5. After the divorce of his parents and the trauma of being left with his mother while his father took off with his
mistress, five year old Johnny, who was toilet trained when he was two, began wetting his bed The Freudian
analyst, whom Johnny's mother consults for help, will most likely explain Johnny's behaviour as
1. Regression and fixation as a result of feeling overwhelmed by anxiety
2. The repression of sexual feelings towards his mother now that the rival figure of the father is out of the way
3. The sublimation of aggressive feelings towards the father who left them
4. The projection of castration anxiety in the act of wetting his bed
6. A pastor has a child who abuses drugs He preaches hellfire and damnation on everyone who smokes cigarettes
and drinks alcohol. He then prescribes abstinence from smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol to his
congregation. According to Freudian theory, the defence mechanism which best explains the pastor's behaviour is
1. Regression
2. Identification
3. Rationalisation
4. Reaction formation
7. Freud regards dreams as the royal road to the unconscious because
a. There is no other way that repressed material can be brought to light
b. Dreams contain disguised wishes and desires which allow the analyst, by the method of free association, to
uncover the underlying problems
c. During sleep the preconscious censoring of the ego is less effective than during the waking state, allowing
forbidden but disguised desires to break through to consciousness
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1. (a), (b) & (c)
2. (a) & (c)
3. (b) & (c)
4. (a)
8. Which of the statement/s below is/are INCORRECT according to the psychoanalytic theory? A mother, who
breastfed her baby, wants to return to work and starts feeding her baby from a bottle and then a cup in order to h
a. Become fixated at the oral stage of development
b. Develop an over dependence on other people
c. Fail to actualise her organismic potential
d. Develop a strong ego
1. All of the above
2. (a), (b) & (d)
3. (a) & (b)
4. (c) & (d)
9. The psychoanalytic description of the optimally developed personality will include characteristics such as a.
Full self-actualisation.
b. The freedom to find meaning and purpose in life
c. The ability to love and to work
d. An effective reality testing capability
1. All of the above
2. (c) & (d)
3. (c)
4. (d)
10. According to Freud, psychological disorders are
a. Caused by an imbalance in the structure of the personality
b. An extreme, exaggerated form of normal behaviour.
c. The result of fixation in a stage
d. The result of an ego that is too weak to handle the conflict between the id and superego effectively
1. All of the above
2. (a) & (b)
3. (c) & (d)
4. (a), (c) & (d)
SOCIAL COGNITIVE LEARNING APPROACH:
Read the following story and then answer Questions 11 to 15 in terms of Bandura's theory
Thabo plays hooker for his school's first rugby team He is coached by a famous Springbok scrum-half, Mr Joost
Thabo's younger brother, Vusi and their father attend all the practice sessions Mr Joost demonstrates all the
important movements, which the team copies faithfully He points out to Thabo that he tends to throw the ball in
skew in the line-outs Mr Joost shows Thabo a special throw-in technique to use in the line-outs Thabo gets it right
and he is very proud of himself when he is chosen for the national team. His father is so excited about Thabo's
achievement that he buys him the most sought-after rugby bail on the market. The younger brother, Vusi, is beside
himself with excitement and pride regarding his elder brother's achievement He wishes he was old enough to play
rugby so that he can also get a rugby ball like Thabo One day Mr Joost is late for the practice session and some of the
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children start playing in his absence Vusi begs them to let him play too, and to everybody's surprise, little Vusi
flawlessly uses the special throw-in technique Mr Joost taught Thabo Vusi guns all over his face with pride
11. What kinds of learning, according to Bandura's theory, are involved in the younger brother Vusi's learning
process?
1. Direct learning and self-regulation
2. Observational and direct learning
3. Observational learning and self-regulation.
4. Observational learning, direct learning and self-regulation
12. What kinds of reinforcement are clearly involved in the learning process of Thabo, the elder brother? a.
Direct reinforcement
b. Vicarious reinforcement.
c. Internal self-reinforcement
d. External self-reinforcement
1. (a) & (c)
2. (b) & (d)
3. (a), (c) & (d)
4. All of the above
13. The new rugby ball serves as a
1. Direct reinforcer
2. Vicarious reinforcer
3. Internal self-reinforcer
4. External self-reinforcer
14. in the learning process of Vusi, the younger brother. The fact that Vusi, the younger brother, throws the ball in
perfectly in the line-out, like his borther who learnt to throw the ball in straight after Mr Joost showed him a
special throw-in technique. This indicates that ____ took place in the case of Vusi
1. Imitation
2. Counter-imitation
3. Self-regulation
4. Negative reinforcement
15. The fact that Mr Joost cautioned Thabo for throwing the ball in skew in the line-outs serves as (a) ____ for
Thabo, but as (b) ____ for Vusi
1. (a) direct punishment (b) vicarious punishment
2. (a) negative reinforcement (b) direct punishment
3. (a) vicarious punishment (b) direct punishment
4. (a) direct punishment (b) external self-punishment
16. It is Tshepo's belief that he has failed his Personality Theories examination because the lecturers are
prejudiced towards him Pule on the other hand, has also failed the examination, but he feels that he did not
spend enough time preparing for the examination and that his answers were too vague and not specific enough.
Tshepo has an (a) ____ locus of control, whereas Pule has an (b)____
1. (a) external (b) internal
2. (a) internal (b) external
3. (a) internal and external (b) internal
4. (a) external (b) internal and external
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