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ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 1 Assignment Self
Confidence For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   Identify your
present level of self confidence. Out of the
twelve techniques on p. 86-87 of the course text
that are designed to increase self confidence,
select at least six and describe how they can
help you strengthen your own self-confidence.
Does self confidence affect job performance? Why
or why not? How are inter-office relationships
affected by differing levels of self-confidence?
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ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 1 DQ 1 Career Possibilities
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com   Now that you are familiar with I/O
psychology, if you wanted to pursue a career in
this area, what could you do between now
and graduation to make this career possible? What
unique opportunities does the field of I/O
psychology present in the workplace?
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ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 1 DQ 2 The Acting Self
For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com     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).
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ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 2 Assignment Prejudice,
Stereotypes, and Discrimination
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.com     PSY 301 Week 2 Assignment Prejudice,
Stereotypes, and Discrimination
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ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 2 DQ 1 Attitude and
Behavior For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   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?
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ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 2 DQ 2 Attributions
For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   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?
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ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 3 Assignment Persuasion Who,
What, To Whom For more course
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tTo 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).
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ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 3 DQ 1 Persuasion
Techniques For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   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
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ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 3 DQ 2 Obedience and
Conformity For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   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?
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ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 4 Asssignment Power of Love
and Relationships For more
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signmentTo 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 4 DQ 1 Altruism and
Prosocial Behavior For more
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ine 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?
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ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 4 DQ 2 Aggression
For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com     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
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ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 5 DQ 1 Groupthink
For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com     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
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ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 5 DQ 2 Social Dilemmas
For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com     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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ASHFORD PSY 301 Week 5 Final Paper Social
Psychology Bringing It All Together
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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
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