PAPER # 1: BREAKING A NORM NAME: Nisha Tommy A norm is a principle of right action binding upon the members of a group and serving to guide‚ control‚ or regulates proper and acceptable behavior. Social norms are group-held beliefs about how members should behave in a given context. Sociologists describe norms as informal understandings that govern society’s behaviors‚ while psychologists have adopted a more general definition‚ recognizing smaller group units‚ like a team or an office
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In their study‚ Freng and Kehn (2013) described the use of Implicit Association Test (IAT) to test the accuracy of the eyewitness testimony. IUT has been proven to be a highly effective tool to “distinguish between information witnessed during a previous event and information that was not witnessed” (Freng and Kehn‚ 2013‚ p.5). the purpose of this study is to create a modified version of the test and distinguish what the participants witnessed versus did not witness. Furthermore‚ the participants
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case at hand can become heavily influence because of these said beliefs. In psychology this is commonly known as belief perseverance‚ this is when people cling to their beliefs‚ even when faced with contrary evidence. Throughout the film “Twelve Angry Men” by Reginald Rose‚ one can clearly see how these personal beliefs and experience cloud the mind and judgement of the jurors because of this it takes a very long time for a clearly innocent man to be seen as innocent due to the personal beliefs of
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I performed the light skinned versus dark skinned test on IAT. The results from my test showed that I favor dark skinned versus light skinned people. I do think the test produced valid results. I have a sister that is a darker skinned African American. I watched people treat her different than myself growing up. I have always made a conscious effect to make sure I block those negative prejudices. I think it is possible to point out prejudice but not to accurately measure them. I feel there is no
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The Implicit-association test (IAT) measures social psychology by detecting the strength of a person’s automatic association between mental representations of concepts in memory. Three sources of evidence that the IAT measures attitudes that are predictive of behavior are: valence‚ stereotype‚ and self-esteem. Valence measures associations between concepts and positive (intrinsic attractiveness) or negative valence (aversiveness). For example‚ the Race IAT depicts that nonwhite individuals have an
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Chapter 6 Decision Making and Ethics Chapter Learning Objectives Compare and contrast the rational model of decision-making and Simon’s normative model. Discuss the contingency model for selecting a solution. Explain the model of decision-making styles and the stages of the creative process. Explain how participative management affects performance. Review Vroom and Jago’s decision-making model. Contrast brainstorming‚ the nominal group technique‚ the Delphi technique‚ and computer-aided
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American Norms vs. Japan Norms In sociology‚ when we discuss culture (which is the totality of learned socially transmitted customs‚ knowledge‚ material objects‚ and behavior (Schaefer 2010:50))‚ we discuss how culture includes such things as; language‚ beliefs‚ values and norms. When sociologists studied culture they mainly looked upon the norms of society. Norms are "the agreed-upon expectations and rules by which a culture guides the members in any given situation"(Cultural Norms). There are
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Sociology March 12‚ 2001 "Breaking the Norms" It is 9:00 PM on a Sunday night. Televisions all across America tune into MTV. Millions of viewers will now spend the next thirty minutes watching a television program titled "Jackass". While watching this program‚ the viewers will observe everything from people eating hard boiled eggs in an attempt to purposely vomit‚ to a man testing out various self defense devices on himself. Next week viewers will tune into the same program to see the same
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Breaking the Norms When each of us was conceived‚ we did not have anything influencing our perception of the world. While we were growing up and still do this day‚ our surroundings influenced the way we think and the how we behave in our daily lives. We get ideas about gender roles from our parents‚ our teachers‚ television‚ books and even subconsciously. As part of a project to break the norms of society and push past peoples thresholds‚ I needed to figure out what made people feel uncomfortable
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As women and men both set sail to achieve their careers‚ the question of who takes care of the family arises. In “ Mommies and Daddies on The Fast Track In Other Wealthy Nations‚” Gwen Moore discusses in which way other countries around the world deal with balancing family and career compared to the United States. Moore focuses mainly on a 1990’s survey of twelve hundred women and men who held high ranking jobs in elected politics and business‚ across seventy-seven capitalist democracies. The author
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