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Douglas College Social Psychology & Behaviors Questions
I don’t understand this Psychology question and need help to study.
You’re to provide answers to these questions. Your assessment will be based on the number of your contributions to the questions/issues raised.
1. Can you think of examples of social psychology in everyday life?
2. There is a greater tendency to attribute personal disposition to others’ behaviour while attributing situational factors to personal behaviour. Why is this so?
3. Give an example of how one’s attribution can lead to forgiveness of a transgressor.
4. Research has shown that we tend to give ourselves more credits for positive outcomes than we give to other people; we also tend to give an external or uncontrollable explanation to negative outcomes that happen to us (Campbell & Sedikides, 1999). What do social psychologists call this phenomenon? and why do people make this kind of attribution?
5. What are the methods of central/peripheral routes of persuasion?
6. Give an example of when you have used the foot-in-the-door technique.
7. Give an example of how more effort leads to more commitment (e.g. abusive relationship).
8. What is prejudice, and what factors influence prejudice?
