PSYC 354 Study Guide - Final Guide: Ambivalent Sexism, Social Learning Theory, Stereotype Threat

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 354
• Professor: Nazish Salahuddin

Document Summary

Predicting and explaining human thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, while including the lens of culture justice and equity. Right of same sex couples to adopt children. Elimination of life sentences for juvenile offenders. Dr. melba vasquez, former apa president called on psychologists to address issues of equality, justice, and minimizing human suffering (social justice) Identify racism, sexism, homophobia, classism, and other types of injustice. Model of interpersonal communication as it relates to cross-cultural communication. Know and be able to apply the mode. Noise can be biases, values, prior experiences, and stereotypes. Noise leads to errors in decoding/unconscious or conscious loaded encoding. This leads to conflict, hard feelings, disharmony, and distance. Class 3: race and racism in the us. Apply ecological model to understand race and racism in the us. Class 4: ecological model and social learning theory. Chronosystem: place in history of the country/world, place in your own personal history.