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Psychology · Module 5

How We Shape Each Other

The first four modules explored the individual mind and its big questions. This module turns to social psychology: how people shape one another's behaviour, often far more than we realise.

You will learn how situations drive behaviour, why people help or fail to help, how prejudice forms and can be reduced, where aggression comes from, how we judge right and wrong, why we cooperate and trust, and how to use all of it to live well with others.

Lessons
7 lessons
Estimated time
~6-8 hours
Assessment
Module quiz included

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Lessons

Lesson 1 · 16 min

The Power of the Situation

Lesson 2 · 16 min

Helping and Altruism

Lesson 3 · 16 min

Prejudice and How to Reduce It

Lesson 4 · 16 min

Why People Harm: The Psychology of Aggression

Lesson 5 · 16 min

Moral Psychology: How We Judge Right and Wrong

Lesson 6 · 16 min

Trust, Cooperation, and Society

Lesson 7 · 16 min

Living Well with Others

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How We Shape Each Other — Module Assessment

14 questions · pass mark 75%

  1. 1.The fundamental attribution error is best described as the tendency to:
  2. 2.Why should the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment be cited cautiously as evidence for situational power?
  3. 3.Diffusion of responsibility helps explain the bystander effect because:
  4. 4.What is the accurate way to describe the Kitty Genovese case today?
  5. 5.Which of Allport's conditions is present when two groups work toward a goal neither can reach alone?
  6. 6.What is the most accurate summary of Pettigrew and Tropp's 2006 meta-analysis of intergroup contact?
  7. 7.A robber uses force purely to obtain money, feeling no anger. This is best described as:
  8. 8.What is the most accurate statement of what Bandura's Bobo doll experiments showed?
  9. 9.What does Jonathan Haidt's social intuitionist model claim about how people make moral judgments?
  10. 10.Which is a well-known criticism of Kohlberg's stages of moral development?
  11. 11.Which strategy won Robert Axelrod's repeated prisoner's dilemma tournaments?
  12. 12.What best describes indirect reciprocity?
  13. 13.A driver cuts you off. Applying the benefit of the situation well, what is the wisest response?
  14. 14.According to reports from the Harvard Study of Adult Development, what most strongly distinguished people who stayed healthy and happy into old age?
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