End of the Year Assignments

End of the Year Assignments for Sports Psychology:

1. Your task is to find comprehensive answers to the following questions about Social psychology. You can use the internet or either of our textbook options to find your answers. To be complete, your response needs to be in a complete sentence, completely answer the question, and be accurate. You can complete digital or handwritten.

2. Your secondary task is to create a poster that will present the information in the question that you find most interesting. This poster should include the question being answered, an engaging graphic, and relevant information that answers the question. You can complete digital or handwritten.

3. Next you should move onto the newspaper project. Refer to the previous blog post for more specific instructions and details for the newspaper project.

Social Psychology Over view questions:1.     What do social psychologists study? How do we tend to explain others’ behavior and our own?
2.     Does what we think affect what we do, or does what we do affect what we think?
3.     What is automatic mimicry, and how do conformity experiments reveal the power of social influence?
4.     What did Milgram’s obedience experiments teach us about the power of social influence?
5.     How is our behavior affected by the presence of others?
6.     What are group polarization and groupthink, and how much power do we have as individuals?
7.     How do cultural norms affect our behavior?
8.     What is prejudice? What are its social and emotional roots?
9.     What are the cognitive roots of prejudice?
10.            How does psychology’s definition of aggression differ from everyday usage? What biological factors make us more prone to hurt one another?
11.            What psychological and social-cultural factors may trigger aggressive behavior?
12.            Why do we befriend or fall in love with some people but not others?
13.            How does romantic love typically change as time passes?
14.            When are people most—and least—likely to help?
15.            How do social exchange theory and social norms explain helping behavior?
16.            How do social traps and mirror-image perceptions fuel social conflict?
17.            How can we transform feelings of prejudice, aggression, and conflict into attitudes that promote peace?

Point values	Assignments that will be graded before the end of marking period 4 in Modern World history.	Complete?
20 points	Effort on Social psych questions
45 points	Completion of Social psych questions
20 points	Effort on Social Psychology newspaper project
45 Points	Completion of Social psych newspaper project
10  points	Exam review (Response to review questions and complete index card for exam time.