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ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 1 DQ 2 The Acting Self
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ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 1 DQ 1 Social
Psychology ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 1 DQ 2 The Acting
Self ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 2 Assignment Prejudice,
Stereotypes, and Discrimination ASHFORD PSY 301
Week 2 DQ 1 Attitude and Behavior ASHFORD PSY 301
Week 2 DQ 2 Attributions ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 3
Assignment Persuasion Who, What, To Whom ASHFORD
PSY 301 Week 3 DQ 1 Persuasion Techniques ASHFORD
PSY 301 Week 3 DQ 2 Obedience and Conformity  
  As Feenstra (2011) states in your
textbookSocial psychologists are interested in
who we are. Our sense of self is affected by what
we know about the self and by the people around
us. The self is a powerful force. The self
affects how we feel, what we think we can do, and
what we in fact do. (pg. 32).Expanding on the
quotation above, describe how individuals develop
a self-concept and self-schema.  Discuss the
cultural, social, and environmental influences on
that development
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ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 2 DQ 1 Attitude and Behavior
ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 2 Assignment Prejudice,
Stereotypes, and Discrimination
Attitude and Behavior Reflect on the relationship
between personal attitudes and resulting
behaviors, using the Theory of Planned Behavior,
Cognitive Dissonance Theory, and Self-Perception
Theory as your references.  If someone has a
negative attitude toward a particular individual
or group, for example, what are the potential
implications of their behavior toward that
individual or group? How do implicit and explicit
attitudes differ?
  PSY 301 Week 2 Assignment Prejudice,
Stereotypes, and Discrimination  
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ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 3 Assignment Persuasion Who,
What, To Whom
ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 2 DQ 2 Attributions
AssignmentTo complete the following assignment,
go to this week's Assignment link in the left
navigation. Persuasion Who, What, To WhomAs
we explore persuasion, we can divide the
persuasive communication into three parts the
communicator, the message, and the audience.
First, we will deal with what characteristics of
persuaders make people more likely to be
persuaded. Next, we will think about
characteristics of the message that lead people
to change. Finally, we will explore what
characteristics of the audience can lead them to
be persuaded. (Feenstra, 2011, p. 88).
  Examine the role of attributions in our social
world. What are attributions, and how do we use
them in our daily lives? Discuss the differences
between internal and external attributions and
describe the fundamental attribution error.  For
example, what would be the explanatory style of a
person who makes internal, stable, and global
attributions for positive things and external,
unstable, and specific attributions for negative
things? Also consider the individual who does the
opposite what does this behavior tell us about
the person?  
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ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 3 DQ 2 Obedience and
Conformity
ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 3 DQ 1 Persuasion Techniques
  By most definitions, if we are persuaded by an
individual, we are said to be obedient to that
individual. If we are persuaded by a group, we
are said to have conformed to that groups
objectives. Compare and contrast the core
differences between these two concepts. In what
ways do group and individual persuasion
techniques differ? As social beings, why are we
naturally prone to conformity and obedience?
  Table 8.1 in your textbook highlights various
techniques used in persuasive messaging,
including foot-in-the door, low-ball, door-in-the
face, reciprocity, etc.  After examining all the
techniques, choose three to address in your
discussion. For each of the three, describe the
processes involved, and explain why such
techniques are successful in persuading certain
audiences, but are likely to fail with others. In
addition, examine the overall resistance to
persuasion. Although they may be undesirable, are
we more vulnerable to these messages than we
think?
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ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 4 DQ 1 Altruism and
Prosocial Behavior
ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 4 Asssignment Power of Love
and Relationships
  Examine the concept of altruism and altruistic
behavior. What does it mean for someone to behave
altruistically? What is gained from this action,
and how does it differ from egoistic behavior?
What are some reasons why people would want to
help one another, without regard for personal
gain or benefit?  In addition, explain the
bystander effect.  If we all have a genuine
desire to help one another, why is the effect so
common?  How can we prevent it from occurring?
  AssignmentTo complete the following
assignment, go to this week's Assignment link in
the left navigation. Power of Love and
RelationshipFor this assignment, please address
each of the items below Describe the factors of
attraction. What attracts us to one another? Why
are we less likely to befriend someone from
another culture than someone from a similar
background with a similar physical aesthetic? Be
sure to identify and describe all (6) factors in
attraction.
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ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 5 DQ 1 Groupthink
ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 4 DQ 2 Aggression
    Watch the Groupthink video, and explain why
the concept of groupthink doesnt necessarily
have a positive connotation. Describe what
groupthink refers to, and discuss the conditions
that must be present in order for this process to
occur. What are the characteristics of
groupthink, and what are the potential
consequences of the groups decision making
process? Your textbook provides a few historical
examples of when groupthink led our country in
the wrong direction. Can you offer a current
example of this perhaps from the perspective of
pop culture?
  Although we label some behaviors as aggressive,
we also neglect a multitude of other actions that
qualify as aggressive behaviors. As mentioned in
your textbook, what matters is the intent of the
action, not necessarily the action
itself.Describe the various origins of
aggressive behavior, and discuss the gender
differences in how aggression is developed and
presented. Additionally, describe the aggression
cues that we encounter in our social world
through the media, the presence of weapons,
alcohol and drug consumption, the environment,
etc. How do these cues influence our capacity to
behave in an aggressive manner?
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ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 5 Final Paper Social
Psychology Bringing It All Together
ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 5 DQ 2 Social Dilemmas
  Final PaperTo complete the following
assignment, go to this week's Final Paper link in
the left navigation. Social Psychology Bringing
It All TogetherSocial psychologists
investigate how we view ourselves and others, how
we interact with others, how we influence others,
and how we act when we are part of a group. Given
the amount of time each of us spend thinking
about and interacting with the people we
encounter every day, much of our lives are spent
with the subject matter of social psychology.
(Feenstra, 2011, p.22).
  There are three social dilemmas presented in
Chapter 15 of your textbook tragedy of the
commons or the commons dilemma, resource dilemma,
and prisoners dilemma. Choose two of these
concepts to discuss, and explain how each is
related to social problems in society. How did
these problems originate, and what can we do to
improve or eliminate them? What recommendations
do you have? Please provide a minimum of two
recommendations. 
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