HARAMBEE COLLEGE

DEPARTMENT Of DISTANCE AND CONTINUING EDUCATION

/Degree Program/

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WORK SHEET FOR INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY (Psyc-111)

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This work sheet is prepared for you to do by your own. It carries 30%. The worksheet should be
completed and mailed to the Office of Distance and Continuing Education, Adama Head Office.

Do not try to complete the worksheet until you have covered all the lessons and exercises in the
course material.

If you have any questions in the module that you have not been able to understand, please state
on a separate sheet of paper and attach it to this worksheet, otherwise, your tutor will clarify
them for you.

After completing this worksheet, be sure that you write your Name, ID. No, Address on the first
page and Your Name and ID. No. on the other pages.

Discuss briefly the following questions

1. Which branches of psychology are more relevant to Ethiopian context? why?

2. Do you think that argument between nature and nurture can be resolved? Why

3. Write the functions of endocrine system?

4. Do color, race, location and level of income/ development have effect on the development of
the individual?

5. Why do psychologists identify sensation and perception as two different fields of study?

6. Take your organization as a sample or any other and explain about the type of motivation are
there.

7. What are the significant differences between adolescent and adulthood life

8. In the Maslow’s hierarchy of need at which ladder you locate most Ethiopian people? Why?

9. How do learning theories justify human learning (take example for classical, operant,
cognitive and social learning theories?)

10. What is the attitude of your local people towards people with disability? Is disability a devein
curse or result of heredity/environmental factor