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DISCUSSION POSTS RESPONSES....MUST BE 100 WORDS AND HAVE IN TEXT CITATION WITH A REFERENCE FOR EACH POST. PLEASE LABEL EACH RESPONSE AS I HAVE LABELED THE QUESTIONS!

1. Self-awareness

Self-awareness - is self conscious in which attention on oneself. Also make people sensitive with their attitudes dispositionsDuval & Wicklund, 1972; Silvia & Duval, 2001). Sometimes people feel uncomfortable or self conscious when it comes to certain things. I personally sometime feel self conscious about myself when I think something about me is not looking ok. But I get other people feedback that is around me saying you look fine, and why you feel this way about yourself. Because sometimes I get that self awareness about my meaning trying new thing thinking it's not going to look ok to me. That I would have a self conscious feeling about it. Understanding and observing the subject of self awareness really open my eye about being self conscious and how I can use that for myself (Berscheid, 1999).

Myers, D. G. (2010). Social psychology (10th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw Hill.

2. Role Playing and the Standford Experiment
I finished reading chapter 4 and I came across the term, "role playing" which is just as it sounds and we all use it but in the book it is defined as "A set of norms that defines how people in a given social position ought to behave (Myers.2010) and then you act accordingly. I stand corrected, it was not the Stanford experiment but known at the "Zimbardo prison experiment" (Meyers. 2010) and this is a classical experiment of role playing taken literally as volunteer college students were spit up into prison guards and prisoners and the college students took the prison guard role to the extreme causing severe psyche damage on the volunteer prisoners.

This is a great example of the power attitude and role playing has!

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Who would have the ability to remain in role playing mode and control the power of their attitude in this experiment?

Myers, D. G. (2010). Social psychology (10th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw Hill.

3. Role Playing and the Standford Experiment 2
yes, excellent post and I am so glad you touched on role playing and the Staford Prison study. It is sad that we compare ourselves to others however, it is also an important part of human nature, to complete social comparisons in an effort for one to determine where they do or do not want to be in life. (Myers, 2010).

Some are born into stature while others have to develop their own status and determine their roles in life. This can range from personality, appearances, socioeconomics status, and who one desires to be or not to be. (Myers, 2010). The Stanford Prison study demonstrates how the stature of the "prison guards role playing" actually took on an authoritative and almost demeaning role to the prisoners, causing ethical concerns to shut the study down early. (Myers, 2010). A person believing that he or she is in a position of authority, may exercise this authority over others and even to the detriment of other, as this or her ego also comes into play. (Myers, 2010).

One can see this in soceity today, an individual noticing skaters, druggies, or survivors may decide for them self that they do not want to be in this social class, while still other's may view bikers, individual's with tattoos, religion, or other aspects of humanity in order to determine where one may or may not fit in. (Myers, 2010).

Do you think the strong individual whom steps out of the ranks, still compares themselves to others? What is it about a person or groups of people who step out of the ranks? Explain as this relates to social psychology.

Myers, D. G. (2010). Social Psychology, 10th ed. McGraw-Hill, NY NY

4. Attitude

I love the idea of the A-B-Cs of attitude and behavior. One must remember that attitude is not always an accurate predictor of one's behavior. (Myers, 2010). Think about it, a person may bot believe in lying, cheating or stealing, however student's will copy another's homework, go to "Hub" pages, and "study works" and steal other's answers in an effort to gain credit for their work. Still others touting the same honorary attitudes, will cheat on their taxes, not report being under charged for an item, or tell a friend their outfit or haircut looks nice, when secretly they do not feel that way. In short, one's behavior and expressed attitudes differ because they are subject to outside or other influences. (Myers, 2010. p.121).

How might one's self presentation play a role in their behavior or attitude?

Reference: Myers, D. G. (2010). Social Psychology 10th ed. McGraw-Hill, NY NY

5. Social Psychology, Ch. 4

This chapter went into depth about attitudes and on behaviors. My father always trained us in life that our attitudes determine our altitudes. According to Myers, "Much of our behavior is automatic. We act out familiar scripts without reflecting on what we're doing. We respond to people we meet in the hall with an automatic "Hi." We answer the restaurant cashier's question "How was your meal?" by saying, "Fine," even if we found it tasteless." We like to give ourselves pep talk, and we like to make our own behaviors up as we go because situation dictates. For example, when i have to do a speech or a difficult task to where i need to give myself a pep talk, it's easy to freak ourselves out and think of all the possible things that can go wrong. However, humans can be our own worst enemy, so we need to know consequences come from our behavior attitudes and our cognition.

Deleene

References:

Myers, D. (2010), Social Psychology, 10th ed. McGraw Hill, NY NY