Journal of Research and Reflections in Education June 2014, Vol.8, No.1, pp 22 -33 http://www.ue.edu.pk/jrre Academic Locus of Control of High and Low Achieving Students Syeda Salma Hasan, *2 Ruhi Khalid Email: s.salmahasan@hotmail.com *1 The study investigated the academic locus of control of high and low achieving undergraduate students. It also explored the gender differences in terms of academic locus of control and the relationship between academic locus of control and academic achievement
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Group influence PSY/400 March 11, 2013 Group influence Throughout history, social groups and primary groups represents individuals who associates a connection with comparable others. Giving a presence of homophily within a group of people who share similarities like age, culture, social status, and even religious beliefs. However, a group never begins with three or four different individuals who have dissimilar views or perspectives. Groups begins with one, two, or three individuals who
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Imprisonment (McIntyre, 2011, pp. 140-143), Philip Zimbardo illustrates how individuals act according the role they are placed in. For example, Zimbardo’s subjects had identical social attributes and were randomly assigned a role either as a prison guard or as an inmate (McIntyre, 2011, p. 141). However the uniformity of their social attributes quickly eroded, as they eventually began to fully adopt their role and act accordingly. This is demonstrated by the prison guards acting cruel towards the prisoners
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Social Psychology Tutorial – Practice MCQs LECTURE 1-Me, Myself, and I 1) When we compare ourselves to others who are more capable, we are engaged in a(n) _______. A) Downward social comparison B) Lateral social attribution C) Downward attribution D) Upward social comparison E) Upward attribution 2) Henry feels helpless at his job, feels that he cannot control his workday, and feels that he is useless, worthless and inept. These characteristics would probably mean that Henry has _______
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based on the person’s group. * Prejudice is a combination of feelings, inclinations to act and beliefs. * Prejudice is complex and include a component of patronizing affection. * Stereotypes are the cognitive component attitudes towards a social group. * To stereotypes is to generalize. * It is a belief about what a particular group is like * It is a belief about the personal attributes of a group of people. * It is sometimes over generalized, inaccurate and resistant to new
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Grading Guide Social Psychology Paper This assignment is due in Week Nine. |Content |Points Earned | |60 Percent |X/5 | |Lists the factors that contributed towards Sarah’s attitude regarding her curfew and how did |Comments:
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Cognitive Dissonance Theory According to Myers (2010), cognitive dissonance is a situation that arises bringing tension from ides and actions upon each other. One of the main purposes of cognitive dissonance theory is to change the individual’s attitudes and hold them accountable for their actions. This theory believe that if a person or individuals could take on the responsibility of their negative actions, a change is more likely to happen in their behavior (Cheng & Hsu, 2012). On the other
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C1. Team Goals Our team met through weekly conference calls and on the first meeting set three goals. The team leader kept the team on topic and also set up all of the conference calls for our group throughout the project. Each team member selected a certain job that they would throughout the project. Our team agreed to the following goals: Goal 1: Group selected soft deadlines to complete tasks and submit to the compiler earlier than the actual class deadlines. This goal was set as one week
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Katelyn Smith Social Psychology 9/25/14 Chapter 4 Reaction Assignment #4 Use your own experience to define and explain social identity theory. In which situations do you find yourself more likely to identify with a group? When are you most likely to see yourself as an individual? In what ways might this be culturally influenced? In my experience social identity theory is how you develop your own identity from certain social groups. I feel that I am the most bubbly and caring of my friend
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Revision question p 460 1. Casual attribution is a method in which to attribute what caused success or failure in a certain situation. There are four categories which are Ability, Luck, task difficulty and effort. These four categories can be split into 2 sub-groups Internal/ external and stable/unstable. 2. Attribution theory looks at the reason for why someone failure or succeeded in a certain situation. This is important from a sports psychologists view because models such a Wieners give
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