represents a shared disagreement. A lot of this is represented in many different forms and presented throughout the Romeo and Juliet play. A movie that is fairly similar to and whose topics relate in many ways to Shakespeare’s play is "Shrek". An ogre‚ whose name happens to be Shrek‚ and a princess‚ Fiona‚ fall in love with each other. Fiona’s family does not approve of this since the humans are in war with the fairy tale creatures and also because princesses are supposed to be with princes‚ not with ogres
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‘Shrek’ The fairy tale is one of the most common and worldwide types of children’s entertainment through centuries. According to Marcia R. Lieberman‚ the effects are gargantuan‚ as she relates: “Children learn behavioral and associational patterns‚ value systems‚ and how to predict the consequences of specific acts or circumstances. Among other things‚ these tales present a picture of sexual roles‚ behavior‚ and psychology‚ and a way of predicting outcome or fate according to sex‚ which is important
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neighbourhood. On learning of this‚ a student who is studying social psychology makes the comment: It’s just as well that Lily’s usual playmates were not around or that little girl might not have received any help. (Vaughan and Hogg‚ 2005‚ p.358) When it comes to helping others‚ studies have uncovered an apparent paradox in social psychology called the ‘bystander effect’ (Weiten 2007‚ p.684). The bystander effect is a theory of pro-social or helping behaviour (Vaughan and Hogg‚ 2005‚ p. 538) and
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Explain the place of anonymity in theories of crowd behaviour. Is it always associated with a ‘loss of self’? Crowd behaviour has long been a point of interest for social psychologists. Psychologists have looked at how people exhibit different behaviours when they are part of a crowd. The anonymity of a crowd allows people to assume a mask which permits them to behave in a manner which is untypical for them. This can be demonstrated in both negative and positive roles‚ such as people rioting
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E.‚ Montero‚ M. & Lee‚ N.‚ 2007) discuss the characteristics and distinctions between various forms of global and alternative psychologies‚ including international‚ global‚ cross-cultural psychology‚ ethnic‚ economic‚ political and liberation psychology (as cited in Stevens & Gielen‚ 2007). Although the terms are used interchangeably‚ international and global psychology consist of notable differences. On the surface‚ “[b]oth terms speaks to demographic‚ economic‚ political‚ and technological macro-processes
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To what extent has theory and research on families been successful in transcending the individual-society dualism. One of the interrogative themes in social psychology is that of individual-society dualism refers to the extent to “whether the individual or society is privileged in the explanation of social psychological phenomena” (DVD). There has been a great deal of psychological theory and research into the composition of families and the subsequent construction of self in children‚ however
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Jay Greiner Applications of Social Psychology • Make connections between social psychology and other disciplines. Social psychology is closely related to three other disciplines: personality psychology‚ organizational psychology‚ and sociology (social work is sometimes confused with social psychology‚ but it is really more similar to counseling psychology and clinical practice). In general‚ social psychology differs from personality psychology in that it focuses more on the situational
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theorising of intergroup conflict as limited because of the emphasis placed on cognitive processes. Discuss Billig’s evaluation and assess his arguments for a discursive psychological approach. The study of prejudice and intergroup conflict within social psychology became a priority in response to the experiences of genocide in the Second World War (Dixon‚ 2007‚ p.147). Examples of prejudice and the intergroup conflict are used in this essay to find out whether the statement given by Billig that the intergroup
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Social Psychology Types of Self and Identity How do we categorize oneself? There are numerous ways to define our identity. During the course of this essay‚ I will analyse these methods in order to gain a better insight as to how we are able to define our identity and self. Social Psychologists (Tajfel and Turner‚ 1986; Hogg and Abrams‚ 1988) have long argued that there are two distinctive identity groups that help to define types of self. These two groups are social and personal identity. Social
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APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY: AN INTERNATIONAL REVIEW‚ 2000‚ 49 (3)‚ 357±371 Work Motivation and Performance: A Social Identity Perspective Daan van Knippenberg University of Amsterdam‚ The Netherlands La motivation au travail et les performances ont eÂte analyseÂes dans la perspective de la theÂorie de l ’identite sociale et de celle de l ’auto-cateÂgorisation. Centrale aÁ cette analyse se trouve la relation entre l ’identification organisationnelle et la motivation d ’exercer un effort pour le compte
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