Directions
Choose and complete ONE of the following two options for this assignment.
Option 1: Increasing compliance
For this assignment, you are going to use what you have learned about attitudes and conformity and obedience to suggest ways to gets others to comply with a request. Follow the Written Assignment Guidelines in this and all other assignments in this course.
1. One area of social psychology involves social influence. There are many times in your life where you will have to try to persuade someone to do a behavior e.g. buy something you are selling, stop smoking,unload the dishwasher on a regular basis, vote for a particular candidate, exercise more, etc . For this assignment pick one behavior you want people to do.
2. Review the information in chapter 14 on attitudes (p. 556-559) and social influence (p. 560-566).
3. Research suggests that there are two ways to persuade people: the central route and the peripheral route. Explain these two routes to persuasion. Then explain how you would get a person you are trying to persuase to follow the desired behavior in each of these routes.
4. Then using your knowledge of persuasion and social influence suggest one additional way social psychological concepts can be applied to increase compliance in this case. Define the concept and explain how you would use it to get the person to change his or her behavior.
5. Post your assignment in the Chapter 14-Social Psychology forum.
6. Read the assignments everyone else has posted, and comment if you wish. If you respond to someone else’s assignment, please make sure that your responses are respectful and contribute to a friendly and helpful learning environment. Read these General Discussion Ideas for ways to contribute to a helpful discussion.
Option 2: Attributions and a just-world
For this assignment, you are going to look at attributions and how the just world phenomenon may impact how you interact with patients as a nurse. Follow theWritten Assignment Guidelines in this and all other assignments in this course.
1. We explain other people’s behavior almost automatically. Psychologists call this attribution. Explain the two types of attributions that we can make including an explanation of the difference between dispositional and situational attributions and a definition of the fundamental attribution error.
2. Then, suppose a person you are meeting for lunch in late. Explain at least one dispositional attribution you could make and also at least one situational attribution you could make in this case. Discuss how these different attributions might lead you to think differently about this person and impact how you treat them.
4. The just world phenomenon also can impact how we see others who are suffering. Pretend the friend finally shows up for lunch and tells you their house was robbed. Explain the belief in the just world and then explain how it might impact the way that you treat this person.
5. Post your assignment in the Chapter 14-Social Psychology forum.
6. Read the assignments everyone else has posted, and comment if you wish. If you respond to someone else’s assignment, please make sure that your responses are respectful and contribute to a friendly and helpful learning environment. Read these General Discussion Ideas for ways to contribute to a helpful discussion.
Purpose
These assignments will help you better understand or apply what you’ve studied for this week.
Grading
This assignment is worth 20 points toward your course grade and is due by 11:59 pm Sunday of the sixth week. Late assignments will lose points. I will grade it on how well you explained the concepts, completed all parts of the assignment, and followed the Written Assignment Guidelines.
You can view your grades by clicking on Tools and then My Grades. I will also email you detailed comments on your assignments.
Extra credit- Exam 2
Directions
Find up to two outside examples of concepts covered on exam 2. These outside examples of concepts can be recent cartoons, newspaper articles, song lyrics, something that happened in a movie or on a TV show, etc. For each entry, you need to first describe, IN DETAIL, the outside concept. This may include posting a web link to an article or cartoon or simply a description of the TV show or news item in addition to your detailed description. Then, you should explain,IN DETAIL, how this relates to a concept in class including defining the psychological terms. Entries that do not sufficiently explain how the example relates to class will not receive full credit. (E.g. posting a link and saying “This site talks about parts of the brain” is not sufficient). These should be posted in the appropriate class forum.
You may submit up to two examples. These examples are due by SUNDAY at 11:59 pm of the sixth week.
Grading
This assignment is worth up to 10 points (5 points for each example). Late assignments will not be accepted. I will grade your assignment on the definition of a psychological concept and how well you explain how your example applies.
