How Culture Affects People’s Behaviors

Students are required to answer only one of the following questions listed below. At the end of your cited response, you must also pose a question for other students to reply to (answer). This question is created by you, the student. Students must also document (in APA style) all sources used (textbook included). I prefer that students not copy directly from the textbook, but instead summarize the text (or other sources) in your own words and provide the author and year of publication: e.g., -->(Berk, 2010; Ainsworth, 1972 as cited in Berk, 2013). Students must also pose a question at the end of answering one of the questions listed below (6 points). Students must then reply to another student's question again citing proper sources (4 points). In other words, you cannot answer any question based merely on opinion. You must support all answers with current theory/research which you can find easily in your textbook. Please do not reply to a question you answered. Label your answered question by question number.
[DO NOT COPY AND PASTE IN THE DISCUSSION BOARD - USE at least 12 Point Font as well. NEVER CITE a Website.] If all of the questions have been used by other students, then please create a new question relevant to the chapter material - list the question as developed by you.]
Social Thinking and Social Influence
12-1. Identify what social psychologists study, and discuss how we tend to explain others’ behavior and our own.
12-2. Discuss how attitudes and actions interact.
12-3. Describe how culture affects our behavior.
12-4. Describe automatic mimicry, and explain how conformity experiments reveal the power of social influence.
12-5. Describe what Milgram’s obedience experiments taught us about the power of social influence.
12-6. Describe how our behavior is affected by the presence of others
12-7. Explain group polarization and groupthink, and describe how much power we have as individuals.
Antisocial Relations
12-8. Define prejudice, and identify its social and emotional roots.
12-9. Identify the cognitive roots of prejudice.
12-10. Explain how psychology’s definition of aggression differs from everyday usage, and identify the biological factors that make us more prone to hurt one another.
12-11. Outline psychological and social-cultural factors that may trigger aggressive behavior.
Prosocial Relations
12-12. Explain why we befriend or fall in love with some people but not others.
12-13. Describe how romantic love typically changes as time passes.
12-14. Identify the times when people are most—and least—likely to help.
12-15. Discuss how social exchange theory and social norms explain helping behavior.
12-16. Explain how social traps and mirror-image perceptions fuel social conflict.
12-17. Discuss how we can transform feelings of prejudice, aggression, and conflict into attitudes that promote peace.