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.