General Psychology Miderm Exam

GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY
ONLINE EXAMINATION
2ND SEMESTER SY 2008-2009
CLASS OF JUSTIN NICOLAS


Dear Students:

Please answer the questions on a separate word document. Please use the compatibility mode or Word 97-2003 (.doc file extension). Assign a filename indicating the subject, year and section, and your name. Ex PY100MT_JuandelaCruz_BSBiology2-3.doc. Email your answers to angsosyoklasrum@yahoo.com and again indicate you year and section and name on the subject line. Lost examinations will be considered failed or non-submitted. Enjoy!


Case Study 1: Sonny The Renaissance Man?

Sonny was an intelligent student. He took his high school education is one of the science high schools in Manila. He was a good writer and had high aptitude in Math. He was also very active as a teenager. He enrolled in the BS Mathematics Program of the UP Los Banos but since he belongs to a poor family, he had to work as a helper in the University Canteen. It was in UP that Sonny was initially exposed to student activism at the same time he was also introduced to the world of fraternities and drinking. He was actually disciplined by his fraternity for being drunk all the time.

Since he was good in Math, his classmates would ask help from him even during examinations. Sonny was expelled from UP not because he copied but because he let his classmates copy his answers. So he decided to study in Manila. He enrolled in a Journalism course, but later on shifted to Sociology. He became deeply rooted in the revolutionary movement and became an underground worker for the New People’s Army. HE would be assigned to difficult and dangerous missions. He discontinued his studies to become a full time soldier of the masses. Later on, he found he fell in love with a girl with whom he had two children. He was also disciplined by the underground movement so he had to lie low and started looking for a job. He was employed in different odd jobs such as being a messenger, lineman, and as a repair man. He met a lot of people. Sonny can easily adapt to any environment and made lots of friends. His last job was as a call center agent.

Lately, his wife left him their younger son. At the same time he decided to go back to school. He went back to his parents and lived with them and his sisters. Unfortunately, he still continued his vices. He got into trouble with his siblings and his father because he was always drunk. He later on made amends with his family and promised not to get drunk anymore. He still has a brilliant mind but cannot land a good job because he has not graduated yet and is already getting old to compete in the job market. He is now taking care of his son and applying for a regular job. He appreciates art and music and a critic of indie films. He also designs shirts and still writes poems and helps his classmates with their theses..
(Cases are from the files of Justin V. Nicolas. Please use only if with permission.)

Questions:

What that you have learned can be applied to the case of Sonny?
Why do you think Sonny is always drunk? What motivates a person to go into vices such as alcohol?
How would you analyze what motivated Sonny in the various decisions he made in his life such as to be an NPA, to go back to his family, to study again? Would you consider Sony to be a motivated person? Why or why not? Where do you think in Malow’s hierarchy can Sonny be classified? Justify your answer.


Case Number 2 Maria: With Angels and Demons

Maria believed that she was the virgin Mary and that she had a mission on earth to teach and bless others. She does her mission be having sex with them and then touch the man’s conscience after they have had sex. Some of the men she has talked to actually have changed their perspective in life. Her friends call he “Baleleng.” As a young child, she was molested by her grand father. She would catch her lolo watching her as she took a bath. She was accused by her lola of stealing one peso and so she ran away and lived in the street.

In her first nights on the street, she met Girlie, a prostitute and a street hustler. Girlie promised Maria that she sill take care of her. One night, Maria was accompanied by Girlie and her boyfriend to a big mansion. Girlie left Maria there with an old man. Maria was raped. The man said that he bought Maria form Girlie. For a while, Maria became a sex slave. When she had a chance to escape, she went back to the streets and started to hang out with other stowaways. She became a prostitute and became one of the first users of shabu. Later on, a friend of her Dad found her, but instead of bringing her home, the man whom he calls Uncle George brought her home and took care of her. Uncle George had a wife who was as young as Maria and also came form the street. Uncle George was rich and had a big house. It was in this house that she saw wild scenes such as people having sex. Uncle George would sometimes let them walk around the house naked. She also met her Dad in that house whom she claims kissed her in the mouth.

Later on, she went back to the streets and had different partners. She got pregnant by a policeman named Boy who locked her in the house as if she was a prisoner. It was Boy who disciplined her and forced her to do household work. Boy also taught her how to well drugs. Boy took their child Eshan and brought her to a fellow policeman named Sonny. Later, the wife of Boy confronted Maria so she Maria was devastated and escaped from Boy. She met a taxi driver named again Anthony and again got pregnant. This time she made sure that she will keep the baby. SO she went into a department store and deliberately walked out without paying. She was jailed but she was not sure that she will be able to deliver the baby in a medical facility. She named the baby Lee.

After she gave birth, she went to the nuns and asked assistance. After a while, she took her baby to her friends who sell fruits. She visits the baby from time to time while she still roamed the streets for money. She met a guy named Francis who brought her back to her family but later on, she went back to the streets again. She continued taking drugs and met influential guys such as a famous TV host and children of military men. She still believed that God was talking to her and that she had a mission that she can only accomplish by being able to make contact with dangerous men. She and her friends lived in a house in Marikina owned by Almario who himself thought that he was Jesus Christ and sometimes, Saint Joseph. Maria, Almario and their friends considered Francis ad their saviour. She continues to believe her mission even if she is not high with drugs.

When Francis left, Maria wet to the nuns again and she met an organization for women. The organization hooked her up with an American and she is now in Utah, United States with her child Lee.
(Cases are from the files of Justin V. Nicolas. Please use only if with permission.)

Questions:

What theories can you use to analyze the case of Maria?
How was she able to form a perception that she was the virgin Mary? IS Maria crazy?
How does Maria perceive men? What is her role in her life?
What are the different agents that served as stimulus for sensation?
Is there a possibility that Maria has some memories that are distorted? How were these memories encoded?
Do you think Maria enjoyed her having sex with different men? How was she able to form her mission?
Could Maria be pretending? Why or why not?
Who are the people that influence and changed her perception?


Cases are from the files of Justin V. Nicolas. Please use only if with permission.

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