Assignment: Stereotype Inoculation
Assignment: Stereotype Inoculation
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Assignment: Stereotype Inoculation and Understanding Mindfulness
There are two essay topics from which to select: Stereotype Inoculation and Understanding Mindfulness. Each article has an associated commentary. References for each primary article and commentary article appear below.
The critical thinking essay assignment is as follows:
Review the primary article in no more than 2 pages. Then present two issues and/or arguments being raised in the commentary article. Be sure to link how these two issues and/or arguments serve as counterpoints to or modify the points in the original article. Based upon your experience and understanding of the differences between the two issues/arguments you discussed, complete the paper by proposing some suggestions for future research/analysis that could help better understand or resolve these differences. 6 pages maximum.
If you have access to Psychological Inquiry through a library, you are welcome to access the articles on your own.
Evaluation Title: Senses
First, choose your favorite sense (vision, hearing, touch, taste, smell). Write a one page double-spaced, 12 point font paper answering the following questions:
- What are the parts of this sensory system (example: smell has olfactory bulbs; vision includes the retina and rods and cones)?
- What is the absolute threshold for the sense you chose?
- Why did you choose this sense?
- Bonus – discuss transduction.
Second, download and complete the attached worksheet.
The paper for this assignment should be typed into a Word or other word processing document, formatted in APA style. The assignments must include:
- Running head
- A title page with Assignment name
- Your name
- Professor’s name
- Course
You will submit two documents for this assignment: the paper and the completed worksheet.
Estimated time to complete: 3 hours
Assignment File(s)
people aspire to become is very much in- fluenced by individuals they see in successful roles and professions and the degree to which they relate to those individuals, assuming of course a basic founda- tion of skills in a given achievement domain (Asgari, Dasgupta, & Gilbert Cote, 2010;Asgari, Dasgupta, & Stout, 2011;Dasgupta & Asgari, 2004;Gibson, 2004;Lockwood & Kunda, 1997, 1999). The stereotype in- oculation model makes several broad predictions (see Figure 1 for a visual illustration). First, it proposes that analogous to a vaccine, contact with successful ingroup experts and peers in high-stakes achievement contexts functions as a “social vaccine” that inoculates individuals against self-doubt, especially in early years of academic and professional development and other transitional periods when individuals’ self-efficacy is in flux. …
