According to the presentation by Hans Rosling and Gap Minder, why should we "not panic" about the world's population? In other words, what are the current trends in global population (how many, who, where, etc) and what should we anticipated for the future? According to the presentation, why is this potentially better than most people envision? In your discussion include enough specific detail (examples, statistics, etc) to highlight your understanding of the data on population trends and demography.

When it comes to diet, let's face if: most of you are probably not going to become animal rights activists and stop eating meat because you read Peter Singer's excerpt on PETA's website. My question to you is: why not? What's wrong with his basic argument, that animals suffer, that their suffering is greater than the suffering you would endure if you stopped eating meat, and that therefore, according to utilitarianism, you ought to stop eating meat?

Topic 4:

1a.) Define prejudice and distinguish between prejudice, stereotypes and discrimination. 1b). What is the difference between explicit and implicit prejudice? 1c). Has racial prejudice disappeared in the United States? Why or why not? Explain your rationale.

2a). Examine the influences of prejudice. Describe how unequal status, socialization and institutional supports contribute to prejudice. 2b). Identify and explain how the scapegoat theory and social identity theory contribute to prejudice. 2c). What are the consequences of prejudice? Explain stereotype threat.

3a). Define aggression and describe its different forms: physical; social; hostile and instrumental. 3b). How do biological influences contribute to aggression? 3c). Explain how aggression can be explained as a response to frustration.

4a). How can the following contribute to aggression: pain, uncomfortable heat, an attack and overcrowding? 4b). Explain how media influences aggression - be sure to highlight pornography, television, Internet and video games.

5a).  Explain how proximity, physical attractiveness, similarity, and feeling liked nurture liking and loving. 5b). Explain whether this statement is supported by research: birds of a feather flock together.

6a). Identify and explain the three components of Sternberg's triangle: passion, intimacy and commitment. 6b). How does companionate love differ from romantic love? Which love do you feel is most important in a relationship?

7a). Explain how attachment, equity and self-disclosure influence and ups and downs of close relationships.

8a). Summarize factors that predict marital dissolution and describe the detachment process.

When and how did you become aware of people being treated differently because of race, culture, or religion? Explain. Please list your reference

1. Give a brief example of the harsh conditions facing the cold, starving first American colonists.

What is the purpose of Social Psychology? Discuss how the impact of persistent discrimination can negatively impact motivation and self-esteem. What potential life outcomes can be the result?

with examples please

Discuss the role of cognitive appraisal in coping with stress.
In APA format with proper REFERENCES ( word limit 750 -1000)

Make an essay about corruption in general. Use your critical thinking to write this essay.

Topic 2:

1a). Explain the concept of "priming" and how it may impact behavior - provide an example that highlights this unconscious force. 1b). Explain the concept of "embodied cognition" and provide an example of how this unconscious force can influence behavior. 1c). What is overconfidence? Explain how overconfidence can lead to confirmation bias.

2a). Identify and explain counterfactual thinking and illusory thinking. 2b). How might these types of thinking explain behavior, such as gambling? What is "regression to the average" and provide an example of how this can impact thinking.

3a). Explain attribution theory and distinguish between situational and dispositional attributes. Provide an example of each. 3b). What is the fundamental attribution error? 3c). Why is it important to study and understand attribution errors?

4a). Explain the concept of cognitive dissonance. 4b). Is selective exposure helpful to reduce cognitive dissonance? Explain your rationale.

5a). Identify and explain the difference between the insufficient justification effect and the overjustification effect.  

6a). Explain how we are influenced by: evolution and genes; cultural diversity and norms. 6b). Identify two norms from your culture and explain how they impact behavior.

7a). Explain how males and females are similar or different through the lens of: gender and genes; independence versus connectedness; social dominance; aggression and sexuality.

8a). What is a gender role? 8b). How do gender roles vary with cultures and vary over time?

Topic 3:

1a). Describe how social psychologists have studied conformity in the laboratory. Explain what their findings reveal about the potency of social forces and the nature of evil. Be sure to explain Sherif's studies of norms formation; Asch's studies of group pressure and Milgram's obedience studies.

2a). What is conformity? Identify situations that trigger much - and little - conformity. 2b). Discuss the concepts of reactanceand asserting uniqueness.

3a). Identify and explain the central route of persuasion and the peripheral route. 3b). Describe how the factors that compose persuasion affect the likelihood that we will take either the central or the peripheral route to persuasion.

4a). Can persuasion be resisted? Explain your rationale. 4b).  Identify some tactics for resisting influence. How might we prepare people to resist unwanted persuasion?

5a). Explain how we are impacted by the presence of others. 5b). Does the presence of observers always arouse people? Explain your response. 5c). What factors would lead us to be aroused in the presence of others - explain each factor.

6a). What is social loafing? 6b). How does social loafing occur in everyday life? Provide examples from your own experience to support research.

7a). Define and explain deindividuation and identify circumstances that trigger it.  

8a). What is group polarization? 8b). Provide examples of group polarization in schools, in communities, on the Internet and in terrorist organizations. 8b).  Describe when and why group influences often hinder good decisions. Describe also when groups promote good decisions and how we can lead groups to make optimal decisions. Be sure to discuss impacts of groupthink.

You should have 10 entries. There should be a minimum of 4 behavioral entries and 4 emotional entries, and the remaining 2 entries can be either type.

As you learn more concepts and theories, begin to fill in the third column, justifying your explanation for the behavior or emotion with a psychological theory. You must use a theory to justify your explanation for 8 of the 10 entries, 4 behavioral entries and 4 emotional entries.

Social Psychology

Topic 6:

1a). Explain how illusory correlations, hindsight and overconfidence, self-confirming diagnoses and clinical intuition versus statistical prediction impact treatment and intervention.

2a). Describe the cognitive processes related to depression, loneliness, anxiety and shyness and health, illness and death and explain how these cognitive processes impact psychological disorders, treatment and overall health.

3a). Explain the accuracy of eyewitness testimony, its association (or not) with eyewitness confidence, its contamination by misinformation effects, and ways to increase eyewitness accuracy and educate jurors.

4a). Explain how defendants' attractiveness and similarity to jurors may bias jurors, and how faithfully jurors follow judges' instructions. 4b). Describe how verdicts depend on how the individual jurors process information.

5a). Identify possible psychological consequences of climate change. Summarize and explain the gap between scientific and public understandings of climate change.

6a). Explain social psychology's contribution to our understanding of changing materialism: To what extent do money and consumption buy happiness? 6b). And why do materialism and economic growth not bring enduringly greater satisfaction?