Conceptual issues in Social
Psychology
1. Can attitudes predict behavior?
2. Should attitudes be studied
experimentally? Illustrate your answer with example.
3. Describe define, and evaluate
some of the key theories of the self that have emerge in psychology?
4. Recent theoretical developments
in critical psychology have rendered the concept of the self obsolete. Discuss.
5. What are the assumptions
underlying the discipline of psychology?
6. Pinker (2002) has argued that
the standard social science model fails. evaluate his argument using examples
from across the curriculum.
7. Design a psychology degree and
justify your decisions.
8. Social policy assumes a theory
of human nature. Discuss.
9. Dennett (1984) questions why we
want free will . Is this a legitimate question?
