Chapter 11 In Your Everyday Life

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Answering these questions will help you make these concepts more personally meaningful, and therefore more memorable.

  1. Do you have an attitude or tendency you would like to change? How could you use the attitudes-follow-behavior idea to change it?

  2. What example of social influence have you experienced this week? How did you respond to the power of the situation?

  3. What could you do to discourage social loafing in a group project assigned for a class?

  4. What negative attitudes might professors and students have toward each other? What strategies might change those attitudes?

  5. In what ways have you been affected by social scripts for aggression? How have TV shows or video games contributed such scripts?

  6. To what extent have your closest relationships been affected by proximity, physical attractiveness, and similarity?

  7. What could you do to motivate your friends to contribute their time or money to a cause that is important to you?

  8. Think of a conflict between friends or family members. What strategies would you suggest to help them reconcile their relationships?

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