Assignment: Stereotype Inoculation
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
Professors name
Course
You will submit two documents for this assignment: the paper and the completed worksheet.
Estimated time to complete: 3 hours
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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.
