1.) My general focus and topic that I will be discussing is the false consensus effect. b.) My hypothesis is that most people will believe that others hold the same opinion as them. c.) The dependent variable is the act of judgement and the independent variable is the false consensus. d.) I can operationalize the variables by asking how many times a person had differing views on a subject with someone else they thought they would have agreed with. e.) I would take a survey and ask if they were more likely to agree with someone who looked like them, (race or ethnic wise) or if they were in the same political party as someone else.

2.) Charles Horton Cooley’s “looking glass” is explained in three different stages. In stage one we imagine how we present ourselves to others. In stage two we imagine other people’s perception of ourselves. Stage three is when we develop a self-feeling. Mead’s notion of the development of the self explains how the things we witness as children can …show more content…
An example of this would be my fear of dogs as a child after being bit. Consequently, I had internalized this fear and made the assumption that all dogs were a threat to me. Representativeness heuristic is used when you are estimating the likelihood of an event based on how well it fits with your expectations of a model for that event. An example of this is stereotyping based off of how someone looks or assuming their profession by their gender. For instance, when I was in the hospital, and the nurse arrived, I automatically assumed he was the doctor and not the nurse because he was male. Availability heuristics are used to estimate the likelihood of a given occurrence based on how easily one can recall an example of that occurrence. My ambivalent attitude to attend a concert as a result of recent mass shootings and terrorist attacks would be an example of an availability