Assignment: Reciprocal Relationship

Assignment: Reciprocal Relationship
Assignment: Reciprocal Relationship
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In this assignment, you apply and integrate the concepts of attribution, attitude, behavior, and cognitive dissonance.
Identify a situation in which an individual was persuaded into a decision to engage in behavior that violated social values, beliefs, attitudes, ethics, and/or morals, such as misrepresenting a product, underreporting income on taxes, falsifying services on a billing document, taking supplies from work, or engaging in vandalism.
Write a 700-word paper in which you analyze your identified situation. Address the following items:
Analyze the situation from the perspective of the individual’s social, cultural, and spiritual influences and his or her ethics. Refrain from inserting your own judgments and opinions.
Discuss how attribution theory can be applied to the situation.
Describe the reciprocal relationship between behavior and attitudes.
Explain how the individual could have used cognitive dissonance theory to rationalize his or her behavior.
Cite at least 3 references.
Format your paper according to APA guidelines.
The terms reciprocity and reciprocal appear regularly in these works, usually in reference to the mutual benefits that accrue to all institutional participants. Lawrence Bailis (2000) describes reciprocal partnerships as “long-term, well-designed, and mutually beneficial” (see RMC Research Corporation, 2008).
Much of the existing theoretical work on service-learning has focused on defining what
service-learning is (and what it is not) and identifying principles or characteristics of
effective service-learning. One oft-cited theoretical framework proposes that servicelearning consists of two dimensions (Furco, 1996). One dimension addresses the
primary focus of the activity, with service on one side of the spectrum and learning on
the other. A true service-learning program strikes a balance between these two
outcomes. The second dimension concerns the intended beneficiary of the project, with
the service provider on one side and the service recipient on the other. Again, servicelearning can be distinguished from other activities that involve service and learning,
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