(Below are some example answers from the professor) Test 1 - 2 Short Answer Essay Questions – 40% of test Use the space below to answer the questions and use the back of the paper as needed. Answers should be concise, utilize proper spelling and grammar, and directly address the question. A) (25%) In the case study "The Team that Wasn't" (copy attached) Randy (the Sales Manager) was proving to be a difficult team member. Using the Group Performance Model elements included in Organizational Context
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Phoenix Material Prejudice, Stereotyping, and Discrimination Worksheet Define each concept in the “Concept Name” column based on the provided definition. |Definition |Concept Name | |Judgments based on positive and negative perceptions of a social | | |group |
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| | | i. What is the best persuasive strategy? It depends on how much and what kinds of resistance you expect. a. Four basic short-term strategies exist: * Direct Request * Problem-Solving Persuasion * Sales * Reward and Punishment 1. Rewards and punishment have limited use, in part because they don't produce permanent change and because they produce psychological reactance. b. Analyze your audience to choose a pattern: * Direct
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An Analysis of Social Psychology People have been curious since the dawn of time and this curiosity has driven us to learn from and to understand the world around us. In order to fully understand our world, it was necessary for people to develop a method of study to explain what they experienced through the application of evaluation and analysis. Social psychology is the study of how people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by other people (Kenrick, Neuberg & Cialdini, 2010)
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The film 12 Angry Men depicts the challenge faced by a jury as they deliberate the charges brought against an 18 year old boy for the first degree murder of his father. Their task is to come to an impartial verdict, based on the testimony which was heard in court. The group went through the common stages of group development as presented in the text; forming, storming, norming, and performing (Robbins, & Judge, 2010) while personal prejudices, personality differences, and tension mounted as the
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Thomas Powers and Eric Jack look into, “The Influence of Cognitive Dissonance on Retail Product Returns” in their research. The researchers specify two parts of cognitive dissonance used in their study: product and emotional dissonance. These dimensions are defined by the scholars in their article as follows, “Product related cognitions related to dissonance are based on unknown outcomes different from the actual purchase (Powers & Jack, 2013)” and “The emotional dimension of dissonance has
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Latisha Cook November 1, 2014 Ashford University Social Psychology Stephanie Anderson Have you ever been able to persuade someone into doing something? What about being persuaded by someone. You probably didn’t even know there were several different techniques when it comes to persuasion. Persuasion can be a powerful tool. It can be used in a positive way or a negative way. Knowing the characteristics of the persuader, the message that’s being persuaded and the characteristics of the audience
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within the environment that drive the behavior and psychology of investors. In fact, whether the consumers consciously know it or not, many companies take these factors into significant consideration when planning and executing the marketing strategy for a brand or product. Factors such as motives, perception, attitudes, personality, family, and social class are the mold for psychological considerations in marketing; while external factors, such as social, political, and ecological also have a fundamental
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she shares them with her two friends and they would laugh about how low the Plastic could be. Along the way, she yielded to peer pressure when she decided to join the Math club despite everybody telling her that being a member of that team means social suicide. For her part, Cady did not care much about being accepted by the society because she preferred to be on the Math team despite the effect it may have on her status. Only through this, did she show her true colors because she admitted she loves
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The Relationship between Attitudes and Behavior Attitude is holding a particular object in some degree of favor or disfavor. The attitude object can be a person, an event, an action or a thing. Previously it was believed that the inner dispositions are what controlled the actions of man. This is to say that man is rational with all behavior being deliberate. However, evidence has shown that this is not always the case and though attitude does influence behavior to an extent, it is not the only
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