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For this assignment, explore the Social Psychology Network website. Get comfortable searching for information. Scan the professional profiles of social psychologists and learn about their social psychological research.
This assignment has three parts that must be addressed in an integrative essay.
When you are finished exploring the website, discuss in a paper (1,250-1,500 words) what you have discovered and include the following:
From the Social Psychology Network website, for each theoretical perspective discussed in your lecture notes, select social psychologists whose research corresponds with these theoretical perspectives. Be sure to include their names, academic affiliations, and a brief discussion of their primary research area. Your essay should include a discussion of a total of five different social psychologists and their primary research area.
Conclude your paper by discussing the role of culture as it relates to the research of the social psychologists you have chosen. Why is understanding culture important when choosing a research method for conducting human research?
Your paper should reflect a minimum of five references.
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.
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Provide a minimum of four personal examples to illustrate impression management, social tuning, social comparisons, mindsets, intrinsic/extrinsic motivation, or causal theories.
One example provided must address face to face versus written communication styles. Are there measures that can be taken when communicating non-verbally to improve self-presentation, impression management, attributional inferences, and cognitive biases?
Each example provided should be based upon how your personal views were shaped by parents, teachers, friends, community, culture, etc. Each example should be supported by relevant research.
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.
Refer to “PSY-530 Research Paper Protocols” and follow the instructions for completing the Thesis and Sources.
Throughout the course, you will create a research/term paper (2,500 words of content, plus cover, abstract, and reference pages) that relates a basic social psychological principle of your choice to one of the applied subfields (forensic psychology, psychology of religion, and health psychology).
The paper must have at least five scholarly (peer reviewed) sources, four of those from the past two years. After you have fulfilled the scholarly article criteria, you may use other sources you find applicable, but these other sources, especially Web sources, should be used judiciously and sparingly.
Below is an outline of due dates:
1. The Research Paper: Thesis and Sources will be due to the instructor for review in Module 3.
2. Written feedback from the instructor on the Research Paper: Thesis and Sources will be provided in Module 4.
3. Student should begin writing the Research Paper: Rough Draft in Module 4 and submit it to the instructor in Module 5.
4. The Research Paper: Final draft will be due in Module 7.
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is required.
This assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.
In a 750-1,000-word essay, discuss the impacts of institutional bias.
What are some examples of institutional biases?
What roles do attitudes, stereotypes, and prejudices play in institutional biases?
What impact does cultural influence have on institutional biases?
You may consider how institutional biases are apparent in health care, education, and the workplace or based upon a person’s age.
Support your paper with three scholarly sources from the GCU library.
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.
In a 750-1,000-word essay, describe how the five factors of personal attraction affect friendships and intimate relationships. Address the following:
- How do different perspectives impact relationship development and maintenance particularly in terms of exchange versus communal factors?
- How do attachment styles impact the level of intimacy shared in friendships and relationships?
- Using the social exchange theory, equity theory and penetration theory, describe how relationships are maintained or ended.
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.
Refer to “PSY-530 Research Paper Protocols” and follow the instructions for completing the rough draft.
Throughout the course, you will create a research/term paper (2,500 words of content, plus cover, abstract, and reference pages) that relates a basic social psychological principle of your choice to one of the applied subfields (forensic psychology, psychology of religion, and health psychology).
The paper must have at least five scholarly (peer reviewed) sources, four of those from the past two years. After you have fulfilled the scholarly article criteria, you may use other sources you find applicable, but these other sources, especially Web sources, should be used judiciously and sparingly.
Below is an outline of due dates:
1. The Research Paper: Thesis and Sources will be due to the instructor for review in Module 3.
2. Written feedback from the instructor on the Research Paper: Thesis and Sources will be provided in Module 4.
3. Student should begin writing the Research Paper: Rough Draft in Module 4 and submit it to the instructor in Module 5.
4. The Research Paper: Final draft will be due in Module 7.
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is required.
This assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.
Review the Bystander Effect at:
https://explorable.com/bystander-apathy-experiment
or
https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/bystander-effect
In an essay of 750-1,000 words, define and discuss the ways in which diffusion of responsibility, pluralistic ignorance, and victim effects can influence helping behavior.
In what ways might social and cultural pressure, and beliefs about “self” affect helping behavior?
Locate three scholarly sources to assist in writing this paper.
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.
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In an essay of 750-1,000 words, discuss the reliability of eyewitness testimony.
Include a relevant court case in which eyewitness testimony was used to convict or acquit an individual.
Discuss how the reasonable person standard applies to eyewitness testimony.
Locate three relevant scholarly articles to support the information in your paper.
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.
Details:
Refer to “PSY-530 Research Paper Protocols” and follow the instructions for completing the final draft.
PSY-530 Research Paper Protocols
Throughout the course, you will create a research/term paper (2,500 words of content, plus cover, abstract, and reference pages) that relates a basic social psychological principle of your choice to one of the applied subfields (forensic psychology, psychology of religion, and health psychology).
The paper must have at least five scholarly (peer reviewed) sources, four of those from the past two years. After you have fulfilled the scholarly article criteria, you may use other sources you find applicable, but these other sources, especially Web sources, should be used judiciously and sparingly.
Below is an outline of due dates:
1. The Research Paper: Thesis and Sources will be due to the instructor for review in Module 3.
2. Written feedback from the instructor on the Research Paper: Thesis and Sources will be provided in Module 4.
3. Student should begin writing the Research Paper: Rough Draft in Module 4 and submit it to the instructor in Module 5.
4. The Research Paper: Final draft will be due in Module 7.
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is required.
This assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.
Complete the final exam. Your instructor will post the final exam at the beginning of Module 8 in the Course Add-Ons section.
You have until the end of Module 8 to complete the exam. Late exams are not accepted.
The final exam consists of the following:
Choose four of the sixteen essay question choices. Write a complete, integrative essay response, supporting your answers with examples from the lectures and textbook.
Website sources are not acceptable as supporting references for the exam. Be sure to number your answers to correspond with your question selections, and provide applicable references at the end of each question.
While APA format is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
