SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY FINAL EXAMINATION (CH 12‚ 13‚ & 14) SPRING 2011 MULTIPLE CHOICE: 3 points each 1. An act performed voluntarily to help someone else when there is no expectation of receiving a reward is known as a. nurturance b. altruism c. pro-social behavior d. modeling 2. True altruism is defined by a. the circumstances surrounding the behavior b. the person’s intentions c. the person himself or herself d. culture 3. Pro-social behavior is defined as a. any act that
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Module 1: doing Social Psychology Wednesday‚ August 29‚ 2012 3:54 PM Social Psychology: The art of people-watching in a scientific manner. Theory: a broad explanation for a wide set of phenomena‚ strongly supported Concise: coherent‚ systematic‚ predictive‚ widely accepted. Strongly supported by many lines of evidence. Must be testable and falsifiable Generated more exploration Applicable to life Hypotheses: the edited Theory. What constitutes a good theory? Have your theory; generated
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in a social world‚ we are social beings. The effect of others around us can be an influence on our behavior. What does mere presence refer to? What factors are taken into account when determining the effect of mere presence and how do the factors work? Explain the difference between social facilitation and social inhibition. Explain the fundamental attribution error and give an example. What are the physical and behavioral effects of being in a crowd? 2. Primary to understanding our social relationships
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there still is inequality‚ are the fortunate ones. They rise well above the poverty line‚ and usually live relatively economically sound lives. They are the people who are supplied with our society ’s benefits. The people that are in pursuit of social change‚ and constantly bring attention to issues of equal rights and privileges‚ are often the people that do not have them. They are the ones who suffer daily from different levels of inequality. The majority of post-secondary students are considered
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I believe that money and power play the biggest roles social classes. The problem is that not everyone has the opportunity for money and power. Our social class “affects just about all aspects of our lives” (p.144). These also determine who will be part of the upper-class social classes because those that want to be doctors and lawyers do so primarily for the status or power and the money. I believe that everyone wants money and power but few actually have the means to accomplish it. When you
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Social Responsibility Undertaken By Videocon : PHILOSOPHY AND RESOLVE: No business can function in a vacuum. There is the society at large with which it engages in innumerable transactions; the more involved the engagement‚ the better its qualitative and quantitative effect on the business. Aware of this debt to society‚ Videocon is committed to fulfilling its obligations: both as providers of products as well as community initiatives. They have undertaken social responsibility through the following
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Social norms are an essential part of living in a society; they guide us towards appropriate behaviors. Norms are the social behaviors that are expected and acceptable of a group. When you think of a certain behavior‚ if words such as typical‚ usual‚ or standard apply to it‚ then it is most likely a norm. The social norm that I studied for this particular experiment is the norm of paying for something with paper money. Whenever most people pay for items‚ whether it is at a grocery store‚ shopping
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Social Influence on memory of Sydney Olympic 2000 Abstract Our decision-making might change as a consequence of interacting with a single individual or a group of people. We tend to have same opinion with others when we are in a group. An experiment about the effect of social influence was conducted. 563 participants were asked to recall how many medals Australia got in Sydney Olympics 2000. Participants were given ¡¥Low¡¦ (50%)‚ ¡¥Accurate¡¦ or ¡¥High¡¦ (150%) examples. Result shows that participants
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Social Inequality "...all animals are equal here‚ but some are more equal than others." [G‚Orwell‚ Animal Farm] What does Social Inequality Mean? Differential Access to Wealth Power Prestige In What Areas does Social Inequalities Exist Gender Race Age Ethnicity Religion Kinship How does differential access to wealth‚ power and prestige arise from differences between people? Differences are accorded varying degrees of value Those who are most similar to “me” have the highest value Those
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On the first day of Social Problems class we were introduced to Charles Dickens’ phrase‚ “Power in itself is not a bad thing‚ its how we use that power‚ whether to help or destroy”. Governments and government related jobs hold utmost power when it comes to managing issues that are referred to as actual social problems. I feel this is where Canada really distinguishes itself from the U.S.‚ deciding to be more of a righteous/peace keeping country‚ rather than a selfish/intimidating super force.
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