Problem
YouTube Video: "Social Thinking: Crash Course Psychology #37".
A. Explain how social psychology focuses on the power of the situation to examine how people think about, influence and relate to one another in certain conditions. Defend your answer through the use of examples.
B. Differentiate how the Attribution Theory developed by Fritz Heider (1896-1998) attempt to explain why somebody's behaviors is dispositional or situation.
C. Hypothesize how the internal factors of overestimating somebody's personality while underestimating the power of situation can lead to fundamental attribution error.
D. Assess the reasons why a person's political views are likely to be strongly influenced by whether or not a person decides to attribute poverty or homelessness to personal disposition.
E. Analyze how the Central Route to Persuasion technique, developed by Richard Petty (1937-present) and John Cacioppo (1951-2018) in the late 1970's and 1980's, occurs when a person is persuaded by the content of a message.
F. Formulate a theory as to why YOU think Peripheral Route Persuasion is especially effective in persuading people to buy things or do things. eg. TV, ads, billboards.
G. Connect the phrase "fake it till you make it," to how a person's attitude can affect their behavior.
H. Explain how the foot-in -the -door phenomenon can butter people up to make them more likely to comply with a big request.
I. Analyze how the Stanford Prison Experiment (1971) conducted by Philip Zimbardo (1933-present) works in order to understand situation.
J. Apply concepts to understand why individuals we seek consistency among their beliefs and opinions as suggested by the Theory of Cognitive Dissonance by Leong Festinger (1919-1989). Defend why this is one of the most important concepts in psychology.
K. Demonstrate your understanding of Attitudes and actions by researching La Piere's famous study on racism and Cognitive Dissonance. What were the results and why are they important at explaining how our actions and behaviors do not always line up.