Social Psychology

1. Click this link - http://www.learner.org/resources/series138.html. When you get to the webpage, scroll down a bit and click the "VoD" link to the right of the program description for Video #19 called "The Power of the Situation”. This video is about 27-minutes in length. Point out which part of the video you found most interesting or intriguing? Explain why.

2. Give a personal example for each of the following concepts:

(a) Stereotyping (the process by which people draw inferences about others based on their knowledge of the categories to which others belong.)

(b) Actor-Observer Effect (the tendency to make situational attributions for our own behaviors while making dispositional attributions for the identical behavior of others)