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    attributed to all members of social group or category; stereotypes are fostered by in-group and out-group thinking‚ and the out-group homogeneity effect; in-group bias occurs when we attribute positive qualities to members of our own group. Muzafer Sherif: Robbers cave experiment demonstrated that intergroup conflict can be decreased when groups engage in a cooperative effort. Social influence: social psychology research area that investigates how our behavior is affected by situational factors and

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    Conformity By definition conformity is a change in behaviour or belief as a result of real or imagined group; it is synonymous to agreement. It is not just acting as other people act‚ but it is also being affected by how they act. It means that you might even think differently from the way you would‚ if you were alone. Conformity could be both good and bad‚ it depends on the situation. If it leads to someone to drive drunk or take part in a racist actions then without any doubt it is definitely

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    Sample Syllabus for English 102 Text in blue requires your review or refers to optional instructions that can be deleted. <Instructor Name> Office: <instructor’s office> English Department Mail Room: E & T 637 Office Hours: <instructor’s office hours—80 minutes per week for each 4-unit class> Campus Phone: <instructor’s telephone number> Email: <instructor’s email address—this is optional> Course Web Site: <URL for course materials—this is optional> English 102: Composition II Catalog Description

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    Conformity and Obedience Why do we conform? Two basic sources of influence: normative social influence‚ the need to be liked‚ accepted by others and Informational influence: need to be correct and to behave in accordance with reality. Solomon Asch (1956) devised an experiment to see if subjects would conform even if they were uncertain that the group norm was incorrect. In his study he asked subjects to take part in an experiment. They were each asked to match a standard length line with three

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    friends or their families. Also‚ Lessing asserts‚ “it is the hardest thing in the world to maintain an individual dissident opinion‚ as a member of a group” (652). This is also true in Solomon E. Asch’s experiments in “Opinions and Social Pressure”. Asch writes‚ “in ordinary circumstances individuals matching the lines will make mistakes less than 1 per cent of the time‚ under group pressure the minority subjects swung to acceptance of the misleading majority’s wrong judgment in 36.8 per cent of the

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    THE HISTORY OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY As a scientific discipline‚ social psychology is only a bit older than one hundred years‚ with most of the growth occurring during the past five decades (McGarty & Haslam‚ 1997). By most standards‚ social psychology is a relatively young science. In discussing the discipline’s history‚ it should be noted that there are two social psychologies‚ one in psychology and the other in sociology‚ with the larger of the two being the psychological branch (Jones‚ 1998)

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    Stanley Milgram is a famous psychologist who focused his studies on authority and peoples reaction and obedience to it. His famous experiment and it’s results were groundbreaking in psychology‚ surprising both psychologists and regular people alike. First I will discuss the reason for Milgrims study of obedience to authority. Then I will explain the experiment‚ its formulation‚ and its results. Finally I will cover the influence of the experiment on psychology and society. Stanley Milgrim was

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    Coursework 2: Learning Styles Learning styles theory originated in the 1970’s and is based around the idea that people have preferences about how they like to learn. Theorists believe that each individual has a particular learning style that is best suited to them and allows them to collect and process information successfully in order to learn. The principle idea is that these learning style differ from one individual to the next and theorists argue that school teachers should incorporate these

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    go along with decisions and behaviour made‚ so that they fit in even though they know the outcomes won’t possibly be the best ones. The pressure to conform in front of other members of a group was apparent in an experiment carried out by Solomon Asch in the 1950s. It showed how members of a group will go along with decisions that others make even though they know that it’s not necessarily the correct choice. A small group were shown a picture of a line and then asked out of three other lines‚

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    To what extent can we use situational factors in explaining human behavior? In psychology‚ reasons for human behavior can be divided into two factors; dispositional and situational. Dispositional factors pertain to internal specific characteristics a person possesses‚ such as their personality and such unchanging features. Situational factors on the other hand are external influences on a person outside of their control not dependent on the person themselves‚ but the surrounding environment and

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