False Consensus Effect, Gender, And Adolescents

This assignment is being submitted on June 13, 2016, for Professor Kehiante McKinley’s G148/PSY1012 Section 02 General Psychology course.

The following questions are samples of the free response questions from past AP Psychology exams. The free response sections are worth 33 1/3 percent of the total grade. Students have 50 minutes to answer two questions. The key to successfully answering these questions is to: completely define the terms using appropriate psychological terminology and then critically apply each term. Many students concentrate their efforts on the multiple-choice sections. However, the free response section is extremely important. While grammar and spelling do not count, students should make a serious effort at producing a quality piece of writing to ensure their points are completely understood by the

Undergraduate students enrolled in introductory personality psychology courses at The Pennsylvania State University from the Altoona and University Park campuses will be recruited for participation. All students enrolled in the courses will be required to complete the procedure for this study to earn a grade in the course, however, they will be required to give their consent to use their data in the present study in exchange for extra credit in the course. Those who do not consent to use their data will be omitted from the study and will be offered an alternative course assignment to earn the same amount of extra credit as those who opted to participate. Each participant’s age, race, and gender will be collected for use for comparison

The participants were 20 men and 60 women with ages ranging from 17 to 26. The participants were from different majors at Texas State University and were recruited from introductory psychology classes. The participants were 51% Caucasian, 38% Hispanic, 4% African American, and 7% other. The participants were not

According to Irving Janes (1972), groupthink occurs when a group makes an irrational decision because of group pressure fostering and the deterioration of ‘mental efficiency, reality testing, and moral judgement” (Irving, Janis, Victims of groupthink, p.9). Social influence is the effect that people have upon the beliefs or behaviors of others (Aaronson, 2004). Both groupthink and social influence theory have a factor in what

academic gender stereotypes, girls believed they are academically superior to boys F (1,203) = 41.50, p < .001. Furthermore, results show that boys favor the idea that girls are academically superior as they advance through school F (4, 203) = 12.86, p < .001. In academic gender meta-stereotypes results were analyze by using between- subjects ANOVA. Results for the second DV provided insight on girls belief of academic gender meta-stereotypes did not increase as they advance through school F (4, 203) = 0.52, p = .719 whereas boys believe that adults seeing girls as academically superior did increase as they advance through school F (4, 203) = 12.24, p < .001. Findings in the current study suggest that boys believe that girls are academically superior to them, but they also believe that adults share the same belief as they do (Hartley & Sutton, 2013).

Introductory Psychology students (N = 305) from a mid-western university participated in the study online for course credit. Sixty-eight percent of the participants identified as female, 32% of the participants identified as male, and one participant did not indicate their gender. The majority of the participants were Caucasian (73%), and the average age of the participants was 19.04 (SD = 1.10).

Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Christina McElroy, Department of Psychology, Introduction to Research, Liberty University, 1971 Liberty University Drive, Lynchburg, VA 24515. E-mail: cmcelroy1@liberty.edu

The materials used for this study included PsychMate Student Version 2.0 (St. James, Walter Schneider and Amy Eschman.) Psychology Software Tools, Inc. Along with the PsychMate software, a computer provided by Queens College was used in order to successfully complete the study.

Three hundred Undergraduates (18-50 years old) enrolled in Texas A&M International University (TAMIU) will be utilized as participants. Undergraduate students will be chosen from undergrad courses of all majors. The participants will be issued a consent form (Appendix A) debriefing form (Appendix E), if they decide to participate in the present study. Furthermore, students who decide to participate will be entered in a raffle to win a $50 Amazon Gift Card.

Do you ever notice how people can be judged, then treated poorly based on someone’s opinion? This happens all the time in the world, and it is a very unfortunate thing. Sometimes the opinion can be formed based on how you view the person, or sometimes it can be formed by the opinions of parents and/or society. It can lead to people disliking or even hating each other, creating many conflicts. Through reading the books The Outsiders by: S. E. Hinton, Divergent by: Veronica Roth, and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by: John Boyne it is clear that there is a common theme of misunderstanding people based on the views of society.

Participants were from different levels of psychology classes. Some participants were community volunteers which can result in volunteers bias. The age of participants ranges from 17 to 52-year-old (Meston & Buss, 479). However, Meston and Buss did not mention whether or not they obtain parents consent for participants age under 18. Meston and Buss did well informing participants about the purpose of the study.

Normative influence primarily occurs in situations where an individual, when amidst others in a crowd, tend to go along with them primarily in order to be liked and accepted by them as part of their fraternity. Research has identified that normative inference normally occurs as an inborn human nature as human beings tends to associate themselves with others in order to maintain a good social contact and relationship with them. Ideally, normative influence is normally furthered by the need for an individual to increase their chances of surviving especially during adverse conditions. This entails that people may at times seem to agree with others just in order for them to appease themselves to them and avoid potential conflict of standing alone and standing out. In some situations normative influence may occur where individuals associate with complete strangers. In such cases, due to mutual fear for each other, an individual may naturally try to agree with the rest in order to avoid appearing as contradictory or controversial.

Many people tend to blindly follow their peer's actions in fear of being left out. Such herd mentality impedes their ability to make the right decisions. Since peers exert so much influence over each other, herd mentality is crucial in explaining such behaviour.

At the beginning of this subterm, I had a limited understanding of the proper research methods used within psychology. Despite having previously completed several psychology courses, two being upper level courses, there was still much I needed to learn pertaining to psychology research methods. While this research class has been on only an introductory