You MUST check Directions 1, which was the first part of an assignment, in order to complete the second part.
Directions – Part 1- don’t do this JUST read
Complete the first part of the assignment so that everyone can get and give feedback before writing their essay.
Imagine that our country is under threat of imminent nuclear attack. You must make the important decision of who to let into the nearest fall-out shelter. There are 12 people vying to get in, but you can choose only five. Your choices include:
• a 40-yr-old violinist who is a suspected narcotics pusher
• a 60-yr-old architect
• a 26-yr-old lawyer who will only go in if he can bring his wife
• the lawyer’s 24-yr-old wife who has just gotten out of a mental hospital
• a 70-yr-old rabbi
• a 34-yr-old retired prostitute who was so successful that she has been living on her annuities for five years
• a 12-yr-old girl with a below-average IQ
• a male high school student who needs a wheelchair to get around
• a 20-yr-old gang member
• a 23-yr-old female Catholic graduate student who speaks publicly on the virtues of chastity
• a 28-yr-old male physicist who will only come into the shelter if he can bring his gun
• a 19-yr. old college student who has just come out of the closet
Which five do you choose? Go to Group Forums. List your choices in the Fall-out Shelter Group Forum for your group. Additionally, explain your rationale/reasoning behind choosing these five individuals. Finally, also explain why you didn’t choose the others.
WRITHE THE FOLLOWING:
Directions – Part 2
Read the choices and explanations posted by others in the group forum. Pick other students’ posts and write responses. They should be 4-5 complete sentences asking questions about the choices or clarification of the explanation, challenging assumptions made, and applying one of the social psychology concepts listed below. Responses have to consist of more than only one statement of agreement or disagreement .You will write 3 responses, one for each student. Put student 1,….2…..
You will see their work in the file STUDENTS; my work (if u need to see it) will be under file discussion 1.
The following social psychology concepts can be used in your response:
• Attitudes and social influence (e.g. norms, systematic vs. heuristic persuasion)
• Attributions
• Group categorization
• Stereotypes
• Prejudice (positive and negative)
• Discrimination
• Survival: Frustration-aggression, reproductive selectivity, and/or evolution
• Correspondence bias
• Reciprocal altruism
• Cognitive dissonance
Responses need to be substantive by asking questions and sharing your answer to the question, giving examples or counterexamples, etc. Responses that consist of only one statement of agreement or disagreement will not earn full credit.
-PAPER FORMAT .docx
– try to use this book – Chapter 12, or just take a look
http://bcs.worthpublishers.com/schacterbrief2e/default.asp#t_818159____