social influences on behaviors w2 assignment

To Prepare: Read Chapter 5 in your course text, Social Psychology, and thoughtfully complete the following inventories: Measurement of Independence and Interdependence Private Self-Consciousness Scale Review the assigned pages from Chapter 6 in your course text, Social Psychology. View the video excerpt on self-concept and self-efficacy found at minutes 6:03–10:36 of the video The Self (lines 39–73 of transcript). Think about specific sources of your self-knowledge, including feedback from others, your self-perception, your social identity, and your culture. Consider who you are “in real life” and in your online life if you have an online presence. Consider how one of the following perspectives could explain something important you learned about yourself: Self-esteem motive Social cognition motive Evolutionary view Culture Gender Social cognitive learning theory Physiological influences Media Situational explanation Think about one aspect of your life. For example, think about yourself in the role of a student, a spouse, a parent, an employee, or some other role. How would you apply social comparison theory to an aspect of your own life? Recall a time in which you engaged in self-justification and consider how it reduced your cognitive dissonance. BY DAY 7 Submit a 2- to 4-page paper that responds to the following: Describe something important you learned about yourself and explain how you learned it through introspection and/or self-perception. Now that you have identified something you learned about yourself, how would one of the perspectives from Week 1 explain that part of yourself? These are the perspectives: Self-esteem motive Social cognition motive Evolutionary view Culture Gender Social cognitive learning theory Physiological influences Media Situational explanation Explain whether you have an interdependent view of yourself, an independent view of yourself, or both and why. Describe your culture(s) and how your culture(s) contributes to this view. Provide one example of how this view influences your behavior or your beliefs. Your example should include but is not limited to how your interdependent or independent self-view influences one of the following: What kinds of things make you feel especially proud What kinds of things make you feel especially embarrassed The way you interact with others Then, select one specific aspect of your life, such as your role as a student, a spouse, a parent, an employee, or some other role, and explain how you could apply the social comparison theory to the aspect you selected. Briefly describe a time you engaged in one of the following types of self-justification in response to cognitive dissonance: justification of effort, external justification, internal justification, or justification of a good deed. Explain the source of your cognitive dissonance and how this self-justification reduced that dissonance. Support your answers with scholarly evidence from the Learning Resources and include in-text citations and a reference list formatted in APA style Learning Resources: Anneberg Learner. (2002). The selfLinks to an external site. [Video]. https://www(dot)learner(dot)org/series/discovering-psychology/the-self/ Document: Annenberg Learner. (2001). The selfLinks to an external site. [Media transcript]. https://www(dot)learner(dot)org/series/discovering-psychology/the-self/ View the excerpt on self-concept and self-efficacy found at minutes 6:03–10:36 of the video (lines 39–73 of the transcript) Aronson, E., Wilson, T. D., Sommers, S. R., Page-Gould, E., & Lewis, Jr., N. (2023). Social psychology (11th ed.). Pearson. Chapter 5, “The Self: Understanding Ourselves in a Social Context” Chapter 6, “Cognitive Dissonance and the Need to Protect Our Self-Esteem”