Intro final essay questions

Essay questions for the Final exam, these will have to be at least a page each.

1- Compare 2 of the theories of personality from the Chapter.  How are they different?

2- Explain three different types of mental disorders, and some of the general themes of each one.

3- Discuss the components of social injustice and give some examples of how they work out in real life situations.

Social psych

As we went over in class, the chapters are:

-Attraction

- Personal Relationships 

-Aggression

Basically everything in the chapters is fair game, but we'll talk about it more tomorrow.

spring courses

hey Kids,

Since you have been asking here are my spring courses:

Monday- 6pm Intro
Thursday 2:30pm- 5: Life stage development
Thursday 6pm-830pm: life stage development

Social Psychology exam review and essay questions

Essays:

Do both essays and turn them in at the beginning of the exam on Thursday.  They should be handwritten and no less than a full page each. The chapter covered for this exam include: the Self, Attitudes, prejudice, and social influence.
1.  Discuss how the Brown-eyed/Blue-eyed study relates to any 2 (or more) concepts in the various chapters covered on this exam. 
2. What is cognitive dissonance? In what ways does cognitive dissonance relate to concepts in other chapters?

Outline- all this is fair game.

chapter 4

• self concept
• self esteem
• socialization
• self perception
• social identity
• ethnic identity
• independent/interdependent self
• schemas
• ideal/ought self
• self efficacy
• terror management
• social comparison
• self presentation
• self handicapping
•  

Chapter 5

• What are attitudes
•  learning theory
• balence theory
• cognitive dissonance
• cognitive consistency
• central route processing/ peripheral route processing
• persuasion

Chapter 6

•  ABC's
• stereotypes
• prejudice and ethnocentrism
• ingroup/outgroup concepts
• discrimination
• social learning theory
• social norms
• cognitive bases of prejudice
• old-fashioned versus new or symbolic racism
• contact theory

Chapter 7

• conformity
• Asch study
• informational/normative influence
• why people conform
• compliance techniques
• obediance
• milgram

Research interest

we will be having a meeting about research opportunities for students on Tuesday November c12th at 4pm.

as soon as they get back to me with a room I will post it here.

social psych

FULL brown eyed, blue eyed doc

SOCIAL Psych Students

Here are some videos about influence


Stanford prison Experiment

Asch:

MIlgram

Also- because we talked about the brown eyed blue eyed study:

INTRO students please read carefully

The next exam is coming up next week as discussed in class on thursday and will be discussed today.

so either your class has the exam on Thurs Nov 7th or Fri Nov 8th, depending on the section.


The chapters are:

Human development
Learning
Memory

Essay Questions

1. Explain the types of attachment, describe them and discuss how the affect people throughout life.
2. Explain how you would use the different types of conditioning to train your dog to sit and shake hands.
3. What is Eyewitness testimony? Is it reliable? Why or why not (site examples from lecture).

we will do a review in class on tuesday.

Child of rage documentary

This is NOT required, as it may be too much for some students to watch, but here is the movie we talked about in class with regards to Attachment.

Intro friday class 1pm section

I decided that we can just cancel class for friday and not do an additional lecture on thursday.  It's not fair to the people that can't make it thursday and I would rather it be fair to the entire class.  So have a great holiday weekend and I'll see you all next week.


Reminder: tuesday runs on a monday schedule so there are no classes for us.

-Professor Ernie

SOCIAL PSYCH CLASS 11:30am section

Essay questions

ESSAY.  Write your answer in the space provided or on a separate sheet of paper pick 3.

31) Discuss the reasons for our inaccuracies in personality judgment. 

32) In the text, the authors state, "critics questioned whether theories based on male subjects would be applicable to females" (24) when studying aggression and achievement motivation. Why do you think these criticisms were raised? What are your experiences with gender differences in these areas? 

33) Define social psychology. How is the social psychological approach different from the approach taken by other fields, such as personality psychology and sociology? 

34) Suppose that you are introduced to a stranger at a party. Identify and describe three factors that might influence which schemas you use to form an impression of this person. 

Intro fall 2013 Slides

download them here

Fall 2013 Social Psych Slides

download them here

Grades

hey kids, I'm submitting your grades today.

as promised here are your grades.  The final exam avg was an 81, as was the final grade avg.  There was, however, 1 that scored very low, which is what dragged the class avg down.  Without that 1 score, the class avg was a B+.  which is amazing especially for a summer class.  I used your % numbers, since there was a scale on the 1st test.

have a great last 2 weeks of summer, and I can always be reached at professorernie@gmail.com

final letter grade	final exam grade	soc
C	59	7287
C+	76	7574
B+	89	8760
C+	78	9144
B+	84	1834
A	97	8162
F	46	6860
A	97	5383
C+	76	1773
B	81	4901
B+	89	8888
C+	89	0231
A	92	6588

study guide for final

STUDY GUIDE

CHAPTER 9

-       What is attachment?

-       Bowlby’s theory (Evolution)

-       Harlow's Primate experiment (Contact Comfort)

-       Ainsworth

o      Strange situation procedure

o      Stranger anxiety

o      Separation anxiety

o      Secure attachment

o      Insecure avoidant attachment

o      Insecure resistant attachment (called anxious ambivalent in some texts)

-       Long term outcomes of attachment

-       What is temperament?

o      Types

o      Gender differences

-       self conscious emotions

-       emotional development (overall stages)

-       suicide and resiliency

CHAPTER 10

-       I-self vs. me-self

-       self representation

-       self concept

-       self evaluation

-       self esteem

-       personal agency

-       self efficacy

-       get familiar with the development of I and me selves

-       Social comparison

-       Real vs. ideal selves

-       Adolescent search for identity (Erikson’s crisis and commitment)

-       Ethnic Identity

-       Self regulation and Impulse control

-       Gender

o      Role

o      Concept

o      Sex- typed behavior

-       puberty

o      early vs. late maturation issues for both sexes

-       Sexual orientation

-       Theories about gender development

-       Gender differences in skills

CHAPTER 12

           

-       what is friendship

-       Development of friendships through different ages

-       Coordinated imitation

-       Play based friends

-       Loyal and faithful friends

-       Intimate friends

-       Gender segregation

o      Why

-       Cliques vs. crowds

-       Romantic relationships

-       What is play and why is it necessary

-       Types of play

-       Stages of play

o      sensorimotor

o      sociodramatic

o      play in adolescence

-       Peer nomination

-       Popularity     

o      Minorities

o      Outcomes for rejection

7/25/13

I thought about it, and we are cruising right along in the semester and we're actually a little ahead of schedule.  So there's no video today.  Just take the day off and I'll see you on tuesday.

Have a good weekend.

Study Guide exam 2

STUDY GUIDE EXAM 2

CHAPTER 6

-       Information Processing

-       Processing capacity and processing efficiency

-       Operating space

o      Short term memory

o      Working memory

-       storage space

o      Long term memory

o      “filing cabinet example”

-       Attention

o      What is it?

o      ADHD

-       Encoding, Storage, Accessing, and retrieval

-       Reconstructive memory

o      Eyewitness testimony

o      Elizabeth Loftus’ studies

-       Infantile Amnesia

-       Autobiographical memory

-       Knowledge base

-       Rehearsal- Elaborative vs maintenance

CHAPTER 7

-       General vs specific intelligence

-       Fluid vs Crystallized abilities

-       Sternberg’s theory

-       Gardiner's theory

o       biopsychological potential

o      Profile of intelligences

-       Creativity

-       Binet

o      Age norms

o      IQ

-       Why are intelligence tests used?

-       Reliability vs validity

-       Mental retardation

-       Gifted children

o      Global

o      Uneven

-       Cultural biases in testing

CHAPTER 8

-       Features of language

o      Semantics

o      Productive

o      Displacement

-       Phonology

-       Morpheme

-       syntax

-       semantics

-       pragmatics

-       Learning theory of language

-       Nativist theory

-       Interactionist theory

-       The case of genie

-       Connectionist

-       Social interactionist theory

-       Development

o      Babbling/ protowords

o      Over/under extensions

o      Telegraphic speech

o      Adolescent register

review sheet chapters 1&5

here is a review sheet for the chapters we have gone over so far for exam 1.  we'll talk more about this in class tonight.

Review Sheet

CHAPTER 1

            -Definitions of child development/ what does it cover

            - nature-nurture debate, both sides and what is the core of the debate

            - Theory- definition, and why we use them

                        -Psychoanalytic theory

                                    - Freud

                                    - Erikson

                        - Behaviorism

                                    - Watson

                                    - Skinner

                        -Social learning theory

                                    - Bandura

                        - Piaget

                        - Bronfenbrenner (just an overview)

           

-       Scientific method

o      Independent and dependant variables

o      Random Assignment

o      Correlations vs experiments

o      Cross sectional vs longitudinal studies

o      Self Reposts and case studies

o      Why research is important.

CHAPTER 5

            -Piaget’s constructionist view

                        -Schema

                        -organization, adaptation, reflective abstraction

            -Stages

                        1- Sensorimotor           

                                    - representational thought

                                    - Object permanence

                        2- Preoperational thought

                                    -Intuitive thought, basic logic

                                    - Language. Symbolic play

                                    - Egocentrism, animism

                                    - Conservation issues and centrism

                        3- Concrete Operational thought

                                    -reversibility

                                    - increased logic

                                    - Decentered

                        4- Formal Operations

                                    -Adolescent egocentrism

                                    -hypothetico-deductive reasoning

                                    - Abstract thought

                                    - combinational logic and reflective thinking

                        -Vygotsky

                                    - Social vs private speech

                                    - Teachable moments

intro review slides

bio slides from intro

Child psych summer 2013 lectures

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7/5/13- Summer Courses

For any of  you that wanted to take a summer course, I JUST picked up Child Psychology for the 2nd session.  its 6-830 on tues, weds, and thurs.  sign up if you are interested.