Question 1 (12 points) Consider a case where you formed an impression of someone quickly and on only a little information. Do you think your judgment…
Question 1 (12 points)
Consider a case where you formed an impression of someone quickly and on only a little information. Do you think your judgment was accurate? Why or why not? In your response address, how three of the following impacted your impression experience…
the person’s nonverbal behaviors
the effects of central traits
the primacy effect
averaged or added information to make the judgment
attribution processes and errors (e.g., fundamental attribution error)
witnessed self-handicapping
positive or negative attributional style
Question 2 (12 points)
Outline the situational variables that influence the extent to which we conform. Include in your response:
A comparison of how a leader employs two of the different types of power proposed by John French and Bertram Raven and explain how they produce conformity.
A summary of how the concept of psychological reactance is relevant to the process of influence and conformity?
Question 3 (12 points)
Analyze a well-known Hollywood romance that has lasted (or that has not lasted). Select 3 variables from Chapter 8 and address how the variables help explain the outcome of the relationship? (Take time to introduce the variables, define them, and provide a clear explanation of their relevance to the relationship’s outcome.)
Question 4 (12 points)
Summarize how the perceptions of rewards and costs influence helping. In your response address, how the affective states of guilt, empathy, and personal distress influence helping
Question 5 (12 points)
Differentiate emotional from instrumental aggression. In your response explain a) how aggression might be evolutionarily adaptive, and b) the situational variables that increase and decrease aggression.


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