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    trials‚ social perception Ps in social psych research face tasks similar to those of… Eyewitnesses to a crime Suspects in an interrogation Jurors in a trial (attributions?) Eyewitness Accuracy Witnessing a crime and identifying perpetrator not easy (based on quick exposure to person) Consider this example… 3 Correct Answer? Eyewitness testimony very persuasive‚ but 80% of wrongful convictions due‚ in part‚ to mistaken IDs (identifications) DNA tests/exonerations Social psych methods

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    Obedience Stanly Milgram and George Orwell present individuals who ignore their own moral codes when they are confronted by authority figures. In Milgram’s experiment people continued to shock other test subjects continuously despite their reservations against it. Even when the participants in Milgram’s experiments did not want to continue with the experiment‚ the authority figure in the experiment was able to convince them to continue. Likewise‚ in Orwell’s autobiography “Shooting an Elephant”

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    Conformity is the most common and pervasive form of social influence‚ this study supports the idea that women conform more than men because women are prone to care more about the views that their peers perceive of them.I think the results supported the hypothesis because the males involved in the study for the majority part had answers that reflected that they did not care for fitting in‚ while on the other hand the majority of women admitted that they did care enough to want to fit in with their

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    undergo many social issues as part of this stage of ‘growing up’. In the graphic novel Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol‚ Anya struggles with her identity and self confidence but stumbles upon a ghost that could help her face these issues. The novel greatly focuses on elements of ‘fitting in’ at school: a problem that many‚ if not all teenagers face during this development stage. Brosgol explores this topic of social acceptance through various visual techniques that expresses Anya’s desire for social conformity

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    Tiffiny Maitland Daniesha Cohen Brittanie Langvad Brandon Krumbach EXW 344 M/W 12:00-1:15 1/30/14 Project #1: Critique Requirements 2. a. I believe the categories are different between the two types of questionnaires because the SBAS is a self administered questionnaire while the BRFSS was administered by someone else. This could contribute to why the results were different‚ when you are asked questions you may answer them differently versus when you read and answer the questions yourself

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    Social Psychology In The Movie Crash Film Studies Essay In life people will come in contact with others‚ who are from a different background‚ culture‚ lifestyle or ethnicity as them‚ yet still every individual is equal‚ they’re all humans. As humans‚ people have the tendency to have their own unique perspectives on the world around them and everything it encounters. Psychologist Gordon Allport (1985)‚ one of the founding fathers of personality psychology‚ defined social psychology as a discipline

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    Every area of life has some kind of rules‚ sometimes these rules are easy to abide by and other times they may not be. Even though we may not always agree with the rules that are laid down for us‚ many times we follow them because of our obedience towards authority figures. We tend to follow the rules of our authority because they generally know what is best for us and know what the right thing to do is. However‚ there may be times in which our authority figure is telling us to do something that

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    Persuasion Paper After read the two articles “The Necessary Art of Persuasion” and “Harnessing the Science of Persuasion”‚ I think I would like to be persuasive in doing a presentation. If I want to be a good persuader and speaker‚ I should consider the way that let audiences know I will let them learn something from the presentation. In fact‚ the purpose of most public presentation is to convey valuable information‚ whether the audience can accept the valuable information is depended on whether

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    Analuisa Rubalcaba SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY JONESTOWN MASSACRE The bring up of the Jonestown massacre event sprouting almost thirty years ago‚ still makes us feel sad but mostly vulnerable. Vulnerable enough to watch almost a thousand people kill themselves voluntarily. Thinking about situational forces‚ we can relate to those forces assaulting us on our every day life; advertising‚ media‚ peer pressure‚ but never can we imagine they can obtain such power to influence our decisions and actions in those

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    Conformity and social influence is something that happens all over the world. People conform for all types of reasons‚ ranging from religion to the color or style of someone else’s hair. Social influence also plays a big part in conformity. Being socially influenced to wear a certain type of clothing can cause people to conform and completely change how they think or act. In this essay I will talk about social influences‚ conformity‚ and the ways that they can cause behavioral changes. The concept

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