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Paper #2 – Observations in Social Psychology

Dr. Fallahi

Due Wednesday, March 31st, 11:00 a.m.

  1. Please choose one area of Social Psychology and read the famous studies in that area. Some choices are:
  1. Prejudice and Discrimination
  2. Attraction
  3. Obedience
  4. Conformity
  5. Group Influence
  6. Aggression
  7. Love
  8. Helping
  1. Summarize the famous studies and theories within that area.
  1. Spend a few days observing people in your environment, e.g. work place, dorm room, family. Provide an example from your own life where the social psychology theory that you are interested in is alive and well!
  1. Remember to provide a well written, professional paper.
  1. Please turn in the rubric with your paper.

Introduction to Psychology

Paper #2 Social Psychology Paper

Worth 50 points

Student’s Name: ______

1.Peer Editing – Peer editing will take place during class on Friday, March 19th. A rough draft should be turned in as well as the peer editing form completed by your partner. The points earned for peer editing depend in part on the quality of the rough draft. In other words, if you did not provide a decent rough draft to be edited by your peer, then this part of the assignment was not completed as assigned. The rough draft should be at a state that you are almost ready to turn in.

Worth: 10 points______

2. Literature Review – Make sure that you have done a well researched literature review. You need to have 3-4 references. Remember, you may only use the Internet for one source. However, you can use the Internet to locate professional journal articles and print those out – those do not count as Internet sources! Do not forget, you need to turn in a hard copy of all references used (with the exception of your text book).

Worth: 30 points ______

3. APA Style – This paper must be in proper APA style. Please see your book for details on this. Your paper must have a title page, abstract page, and reference page. References must be properly done both within the body of the paper as well as for the reference page. Please pay attention to proper placement of page numbers and provide a running header on every page. Your paper must be 4-5 pages minimum.

Worth: 10 points ______

4. Errors – One point will be deducted from the content grade, which begins with 100 for excellent content. A list has been provided of possible errors that I will deduct for. This is not a comprehensive list. See your “other information” handout as well as your “grading” handout.

a. Awkward sentence construction – meaning unclear ______

b. Incorrect usage (e.g. their for there or they’re) ______

c. Grammatical error ______

d. Incomplete sentence ______

e. Paragraph needed ______

f. Spelling error ______

g. Incorrect spacing ______

h. Incorrect verb for subject ______

i. Incorrect tense ______

j. Contractions ______

k. Other errors. For example: capitalization of titles; extra spacing; fillers; font

size and print style; hyphenation use; abbreviations; margins;punctuation;

presentation; titles; etc. ______

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