Humanities Homework Help

Please respond to EACH of the following questions in a few sentences:

• Define the following self-presentation tactics: self-promotion; self-verification; ingratiation; self-depreciating. Which of these tactics do you believe would be most ideal when it comes to others forming an impression of us? Support your response.
• Define the term introspection. What does this term mean to you? Discuss an example of how this process might impact your life, and discuss why it is relevant to the study of social psychology
• Discuss several variables that might influence our social identity. Do you believe this identity will change over time? Why or why not? Support your response
• Define the term self-esteem.Discuss the Rosenberg self-esteem scale and how it is used to assess self-esteem.
• Discuss the benefits of high self-esteem and what discuss what kinds of variables might influence our level of self-esteem
• If you were responsible for designing a measure of self-esteem, what would it look like and what traits would you focus on for this measuerement? Support your response

• Define the term attitudes, explain why they are of interest to social psychologists, and distinguish between implicit and explicit attitudes
• Attitudes develop through many different forms. Explain the process of classical conditioning and give an example of how this type of learning might influence attitude formation. Include a description for each of the five significant elements that enable this type of learning to occur
• Attitudes develop through many different forms. Explain the process of instrumental/operant conditioning and give an example of how this type of learning might influence attitude formation. Include a description for each of the four types of consequences that enable this type of learning to occur
• Attitudes develop through many different forms. Explain the process of observational learning and give an example of how this type of learning might influence attitude formation. Explain how social comparison might affect this type of learning
• Define the term persuasion and explain how attitudes change through the use of various kinds of messages
• Discuss several variables that are likely to influence the communicators, messages and audiences through the process of persuasion. Which do you think is most beneficial and why? Support your response
• Identify and describe each of the techniques of persuasion. Which do you think would be the most successful technique and why? Support your response
• Explain each of the following ways that we might resist persuasion: reactance; forewarning; selective avoidance; selective exposure; self-regulation
• Define the term cognitive dissonance and explain why researchers have described it as an unpleasant state. Discuss the strategies for resolving dissonance and how our behaviors can change for the better