Activity Outcomes
6 questions must examine the impact of social factors on behavior from a social psychology.
Legal, ethical, and cultural considerations must be included when applicable to all six questions.
Requirements: 6pages plus title and references page
Psychology Questions
- Briefly describe the different ways in which emotions can improve or hinder judgments, decision-making, and performance. When and why are they helpful, and when and why are they harmful?
- Much research suggests that people’s attitudes are not predictive of their behaviors. However, in some cases, people’s attitudes ARE highly predictive of their behaviors. Identify at least three factors that increase attitude-behavior consistency.
- Identify some of the individual and situational factors that make people more or less likely to help others. Who helps the most, and in what cases (whom) are they especially likely to help?
- Briefly discuss gender differences in helping behavior. Are men and women differ in terms of their overall levels of empathy, the degree to which they render help to others, or the kinds of situations in which they help?
- Briefly explain the differences between antisocial behavior, aggression, and violence, as defined in the textbook. Then explain the distinction between hostile aggression and instrumental aggression and give an original example [not in the text] of each.
- Identify five different factors (person-level factors or situation-level factors) that contribute to aggression, and briefly discuss when and how they tend to exert influence.
Answer preview
According to Siegel et al. (2019), attitude strength can be illustrated as the extent to which an attitude is consequential. Strong attitudes, unlike weak ones, tend to remain stable for quite a long time, affect thought, resist influence, and guide behaviors. Another factor is the degree of affective–cognitive consistency. Amanda, Sumitro, Lestari, & Ibrohim (2021) illustrate that the higher degree between cognition and evaluation increases the attitude-behavior consistency. Also, situational factors can influence attitude-behavior consistency. Situational factors comprise the characteristics of the situation in which an individual conducts into behavior in question. Individuals whose internal states like values and beliefs complement their behavior tend to show a higher consistency between their attitudes and behaviors.
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