NDPC Flashcards
Under what articles were the NDPC established?
Articles 86 and 87 of the 1992 constitution
What is the mission of the NDPC?
To advise the President on national development planning policy and strategy, to promote continuous improvement in the living standards of all Ghanaians
What are the 4 level developmental dimensions of the NDPC?
- Social Development
- Institutional Development and Governance
- Economic Development
- Environmental Development
What is the long-term goal of social development?
The long-term goal of social development dimension is to create an equitable, healthy and a prosperous society which will provide every Ghanaian the opportunity to live a happy and fulfilling life
How has the role of psychology impacted social development in creating decent work/workplaces?
- It has helped to create safer workplaces
- it has helped to develop recruitment tools for the selection of talents into various roles
- Improved organizational behaviors such change readiness, work
engagement, workplace citizenship behaviors - Suicide prevention and work stress management
- The hiring of clinical psychologists in the Ghana Prison Service, Ghana Immigration Service and the Ghana Armed Forces
- I-O psychologists make meaningful contributions to the development of employee handbooks, job design and work policies
- Psychology based training is superior to traditional business in boosting productivity of small business
How has the role of psychology in social development, impacted education and training?
- Development and application of appropriate psychology – Indigenous
Psychology - Producing contextually relevant knowledge and incorporating such
knowledge into the teaching and learning of psychology in Ghana e.g. PSYC 444
3.Concept of intelligence
4.School Feeding Programme – Maslow’s Theory of Needs/Operant/classical Conditioning
What is the role of psychology in social development in disaster support?
Psychology has brought about the provision of psychosocial support
What is the role of psychology in social development when it comes to reducing poverty and inequality?
It has helped to:
1. Concentrate resources on finding out what actually works to enable poverty reduction
2. Apply what we know to ensure that research on poverty reduction is
more informative and compelling to community stakeholders, organizations, and policymakers.
3. Protect the mental health of people living in poverty (Appiah et al., 2020)
How has the role of psychology influenced climate to change when it comes to environmental development?
Psychology seeks to understand:
1. Human activities that affect climate change
2. Consequences of climate change that directly and indirectly, affect people
3. Human responses to anticipated and experienced climate change, and
ways to help people respond effectively
What is the role of psychology in economic development when it comes to agriculture and rural development?
- Adoption of innovative farming technology to improve yield
2.Safe farming environment to improve occupational health - Indigenous psychology has provided contextual knowledge of the concept of family farming and child labour.
What is the role of psychology in building a strong and resilient Macro Economy when it comes to economic development
- Entrepreneurship
- Fairness in the distribution of resources
What is the role of psychology in Governance when it comes to law and order?
- Psychological research informs the legal system by increasing
the available knowledge on topics such as memory, human
cognition, and social influence. - Eye witness testimony
- Interrogations and Confessions
- Decriminalization of suicide
What is the role of psychology in Governance , when it comes to behavior/ political party affiliation?
- Voters may vote for politicians they perceive to be similar in terms of personality traits,
- They may vote for parties that pursue policies that fit with the voters’ policy preferences
- High scores on Openness indicate tolerance of new ideas and change
- High scorers on Conscientiousness are inclined to obey social rules calling for impulse control, so that they may endorse a conservative stance.
- Persons at the high end of Agreeableness are sympathetic and altruistic, so they may be predisposed to endorse economic and social liberalism
- • Research suggests that extroverted citizens are more prone to engage in civic matters and are more likely to get mobilized by their peers due to their high sociability (Mondak et al., 2010
