ALLAMA IQBAL OPEN UNIVERSITY‚ ISLAMABAD (Department of Mass Communication) Course: Social Psychology Part-II (5640) Semester: Autumn‚ 2010 Level: M. Sc. Instructions This course carries two assignments. Each assignment carries 100 marks. Write each assignment in your own words. Some of questions require use of examples from Pakistani perspective/setting. So do not simply rehash material from the book in verbatim but rely on synthesizing materials from different chapters
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referred to as scientists. Even as young children‚ people are constantly testing and evaluating the boundaries to decipher their own social environment and quickly recognise what is acceptable and what is not. This soon evolves into intuition and whether it is constructed in a logical and rational way depends on a number factors. However‚ when considering cognitive psychology and the information processing that underpins judgements and risks‚ people ’s cognitive processes are often likened to computers
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described attitude “the most distinctive and indispensable concept in contemporary psychology”. The words attitude and persuasion are often found together‚ as in the phrase persuasion and attitude change. Persuasion is an attempt to change people ’s attitudes. For example‚ advertisers try to persuade potential customers to buy a product. To do this‚ they try to create a positive attitude toward the product. Social psychologists have emphasized that an attitude is preparation for behavior. Otherwise
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Bibliography: Passer‚ M. W. & R. E. Smith (2004). Psychology - The Science of Mind and Behaviour (2nd Edition): McGraw Hill. Hogg‚ M.A.‚ and Vaughan‚ G.A. Social Psychology (2nd Ed.) London: Prentice Hall Europe. Sherif‚ M. (1936). The Psychology of Social Norms. New York: Harper. Asch‚ S. E. (1951). Effects of group pressure upon the modification and distortion of judgement. In H. Guetzkow (ed.) Groups
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the fitness of the possessor (Cartwright‚ 2008). Characteristics essential to adaptive behaviour are those such as maintaining survival and reproductive success. The essay question has been addressed by analysing research within different areas in psychology such as evolution‚ genetics‚ development‚ psychological disorders and behaviourism‚ and assessing whether the evidence found relates guilt to adaptive behaviour. Evolutionary theorists‚ such as Trivers (1985)‚ have suggested that in order to
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Journal of Applied Philosophy‚ Vol. 18‚ No. 3‚ 2001 ‘Those Milgram Experiments’ Ethics‚ Deception‚ and 245 Ethics‚ Deception‚ and ‘Those Milgram Experiments’ C. D. HERRERA Critics who allege that deception in psychology experiments is unjustified frequently cite Stanley Milgram’s ‘obedience experiments’ as evidence. These critics say that arguments for justification tend to downplay the risks involved and overstate the benefits from such research. Milgram‚ they add‚ committed both sins
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References: Bordens‚ K. S. & Horowitz‚ I. A. (2001). Social psychology. Erlbaum: London. Chapter 6 Fennis‚ B.M. & Stroebe‚ W. (2010). The Psychology of Advertising. Psychology Press. Chapter 5 Klein‚ C. & Webster‚ D. (2000). Individual differences in argument scrutiny as motivated by need for cognitive closure. Basic and Applied Social Psychology‚ 22(2)‚ 119-129http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1207/S15324834BASP2202_5
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as assigning a quality or character to a person or an object‚ in the context of Psychology‚ refers to the classification of factors that affect behaviour. Behaviour is attributed to either or both dispositional factors and situational factors. Dispositional factors refer to the internal causes of an individual’s behaviour‚ whilst situational factors deal with the external causes of behaviour which can include the social setting and environment. Two common errors of attribution are the Fundamental attribution
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The social identity approach in social psychology Introduction In this contribution we review a family of social psychological theories‚ most notably Social Identity Theory (SIT) and Self-Categorization Theory (SCT)‚ which together constitute what we refer to as the Social Identity Approach. These theories are linked by their concern with the processes which surround the way that people define themselves as members of a social group – which‚ here‚ is the meaning of the term ‘social identity’. At
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INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS Ashford University Instructor: Michelle Andes PSY301: Social Psychology November 25th‚ 2013 Persuasion is something that we deal with every day; maybe without even realizing it.. We are persuaded daily to choose this over that or that over this. Persuasion is a method of influence that attempts to change a person’s beliefs‚ feelings‚ or behaviors. In other words persuasion attempts to change attitudes by attacking one or more of the tri-components of
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