Question

Use the VIP approach to analyze the delemma:

Values- discuss 3 personal values that may determine if you would or would not recycle wastewaer. How did you acquire these values from parents, politics, religion, education etc?

Ethical Issues- Identigy ethical concerns or issues at least 2 about drinking or using wastewater. Are you willing to drink or use the water?why or why not?

Perspectives- Describe multiple viewpoints of recycling wastewater.How many others interpret this form of recycling? This may include perspectives of politicians, health care professionals, ecologists, local citizens and ypur own perspective.

In your discussion you must hightlight, define and explain how social psychology concepts are relevant to this discussion by including 5 of the following:

social cognition cognitive attitude

affective attitude

pluralistic ignorance cognitive dissonance

causal attribution central route to persuation

just world hypothesis peripheral route to persuation

behavioral attitude social influence

Answer 1

Water recycling is a process where wastewater is treated for beneficial purposes such as agricultural and landscape irrigation, industrial processes, toilet flushing, and replenishing a groundwater basin.
3 personal values which I will take into account while discussing about this is dependency because today water scarcity is something which has expands itself and we all are dependent on water for our daily needs, second value will be citizenship or helping others since if we continue to use water and do not recycle it, than there will be a future where our progenies will be fighting for water and maybe water become something which people see only in museums, and third value is creativity because although there are many ways to recycle the water, what is a new way that can be both good and environment friendly will be my success and my idea to support this mission. I acquire these values from my society and significant others since we live in the collectivistic culture where we are dependent on others and the same time we are also the companion of theirs.
2 concerns regarding the use of wastewater are, first of all, it will not in any sense be ethical to use this water for drinking since it will lead to plenty of hazards to health of people and second of all this kind of water is not good for marine life which is solely dependent on water and their existence will be sacrificed by using this kind of water so in my opinion using such kind of water is not good unless it is recycled properly.
Use a Shower Bucket, Install a Rain Barrel, Create a Rain Garden, Rain gardens take advantage of land's natural water runoff to nourish the plants that live there. These are some ways to save and recycle water.

While discussing these views we can see how social psychology is working like first of all the attitudes which are state of views about a particular topic or object. Here water is that topic and all 3 components of attitude that are affective, behavioural and cognitive work here A-B-C, since when we take into account the positive viewpoints about recycling wastewater we are talking about cognitive attitude, when we say we you say you are very tensed about the depletion of water levels you are indicating affective attitude, and when you decide to use different ways to recycle wastewater you are it shows behavioural attitude. It also tells us about the impression formation since when we talk about saving and recycling water and we acquire the values from parents and significant others it shows that we form the positive impression about them and agree with them and follow their viewpoints. Here cognitive dissonance can also be explained since when we talk about the use of wastewater 2 situations arise first wastewater causes health hazards and second we use wastewater, here person will be in dilemma and ultimately change one of the ideas so that consonance be achieved.