PSY 530 Week 4 DQ 1 Prejudice has traditionally been assumed to be the product of some form of malice, brought about by social or emotional forces. In recent years, there has been increasing research on how prejudice can result from cognitive processes, without malicious intent. Discuss how and why cognitive processes can produce prejudice. What […]
PSY 530 All Week Discussion PSY 530 Week 1 DQ 1 Explain how social psychology is different from sociology, psychology, and other subfields of psychology. Why is there a need for social psychology as a unique scientific field different from the subfields of psychology? PSY 530 Week 1 DQ 2 Discuss some of the research methods that social […]
Assignment: Philosophy Michel Foucault’s Philosophies Essay Description A Philosophy essay about Foucault’s works. -Primary source only, Discipline and Punishment. -address a question and tend to answer it with some interpertaion. Embracing the Parisian avant-garde, Foucault entered into a romantic relationship with the serialist composer Jean Barraqué. Together, they tried to produce their greatest work, […]
Assignment: How According to Wollstonecraft Have Women Been Educated Questions Description Group Description Assignment: How According to Wollstonecraft Have Women Been Educated Questions Does our notion of gender perpetuate oppression? Review “Gender Equality” (Mary Wollstonecraft, Simone De Beauvoir, Audre Lorde, Judith Butler, Lori Girshick) RMP pp. 208-252 Each student should pick one of the above […]
PSY 530 Week 6 DQ 1 When is frustration more likely to lead to aggression? When is it more likely to produce stronger reactions (e.g., violence)? Discuss possible solutions to this problem, including anger management programs.
Assignment: Philosophy Morality and Sympathy Essay Some observers hold that individuals apply distinct sets of moral rules to people depending on their membership of an “in-group” (the individual and those they believe to be of the same group) or an “out-group” (people not entitled to be treated according to the same rules). Some biologists, anthropologists […]
Assignment: Philosophy Unjust Laws Disobedience Question Description 1) Describe the argument : the general type of argument (for example: this is an argument about how the individual should relate to the group); the text; the name of the author (when mentioning first in the paper, please use full name. Later please only use last name, […]
PSY 530 Week 6 DQ 2 How do people’s attributions regarding the causes of another person’s plight influence their willingness to help that person? Is this “typical response” justified within a Christian framework? Why or why not?
Factual Ignorance Working as a Moral Excuse Discussion Within debates concerning responsibility for ignorance the distinction between moral and factual ignorance is often treated as crucial. Many prominent accounts hold that while factual ignorance routinely exculpates, moral ignorance never does so. The view that there is an in-principle distinction between moral and factual ignorance has […]
PSY 530 Week 7 DQ 1 What is groupthink? How does it affect the decisions made by a group? Identify the critical factors that are believed to lead to groupthink. Explain how you could reduce groupthink in terms of these factors.
