CU The Impact of Self Control and Egocentric Thinking Essay

Overview

Social psychology can help you understand the world around you and answer questions about why people behave the way they do. Why is it so hard to take a chance and go back to school? Why do people start smoking when they know it’s bad for them? Why do protests turn violent at times? Being able to apply social psychological theory to personal and professional situations as well as to current events is a skill you need in order to take steps toward that understanding. For this assignment, we will focus on theories dealing with culture and nature and the self.

Preparation

Complete the Riverbend City: Self and Self-Control Case Studies media piece if you haven’t already or if you would like to make changes to the choices you made. Review the case study you want to focus on and the social psychology theory, behavioral ethics concept, and critical thinking concept you want to use in the assignment.

If you didn’t finish your research last week, use the Capella library to find a scholarly journal article related to the social psychology theory you chose. You are required to use two articles. The second article should be one of the following:

Duplex Mind: Haggar, M. S. (2013). The multiple pathways by which self-control predicts behaviorLinks to an external site.. Frontiers in Psychology, 4. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg…

Self-Serving Bias: Sanjuan, P., & Magallares, A. (2014). Coping strategies as mediating variables between self-serving attributional bias and subjective well-being. Journal of Happiness Studies, 15(2), 442–453.

Self-Regulation: Critcher, C. R., & Ferguson, M. J. (2016). “Whether I like it or not, it’s important”: Implicit importance of means predicts self-regulatory persistence and success. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 110(6), 818–839.

Review the Self and Self-Control Assignment Template [DOCX] Download Self and Self-Control Assignment Template [DOCX]you will use to write your paper.

Instructions

Complete the Case Summary Worksheet media. Use the information from the completed media to help guide you in completing the assignment. You can transfer your output to the assignment template.

Once you’ve completed the interactive media piece, use the template to write your paper and submit it in the Week 3 Assignment 1 area. In your paper, complete the following:

Summarize the case study.

Describe credible and scholarly sources relevant to a particular theory.

Apply a social psychological theory to a chosen case study.

Explain how social psychological research studies relate to a particular social psychological theory.

Apply an ethical reasoning concept to a chosen case study.

Apply a critical thinking concept to a chosen case study.

Address the appropriate audience and use discipline-specific language.

Self-Evaluation

Complete the self-evaluation in the Self-Evaluation Tool to ensure that you have completed all assignment requirements (ideally at the distinguished level).

Once you have completed your self-evaluation, you can download it as a document. Although it is not required, your self-evaluation can also be useful later, after you have received your grade. You can compare it to your instructor’s feedback and see where your self-evaluation was correct and where it was off target.

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Self and Self-Control Assignment Template
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Full Title of Paper
Learner’s Full Name
PSYC3520
Self and Self-Control
Capella University
Due Date of Paper
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Full Title of Paper
Case Study
Provide a brief overview of the case study in your own words to inform the reader what
this case is about. Explain how this case study includes a focus on the self and/or self-control.
Assume the reader has no previous knowledge of the case. Use your own words to make your
paper original; avoid quoting from the case study language.
Explain in your own words (not quoting sources) the social psychology concept you
selected that will be applied to this case study. Include at least one citation and reference to tell
the reader the source of this concept (for example, Baumeister & Bushman, 2017).
Research Support
Research Summary
Summarize each of your research articles. Briefly describe the research methods and the
relevant findings. This demonstrates that your chosen concept is a recognized social psychology
concept. It elevates your concept above less reputable concepts (for example, pseudoscience or
“junk science”) for which there is little or no scholarly supportive research evidence.
Research Interpretation
Provide your own interpretation of how each of your cited research findings recognizes
your selected social psychology concept. Paraphrase in your own words (no quoting) from the
abstract or discussion section of the articles what the authors concluded that supports your
concept as a recognized social psychology concept. (For example, Smith & Jones (2018)
concluded that the XYZ concept was shown to have a significant measurable effect in this
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research.)
Application of (Social Psychology Concept Name)
Apply the social psychology concept to the case study. Describe how the concept is
evident in your case. What information, thoughts, feelings, or actions described in the case study
indicate that your chosen concept is evident? Avoid fabricating circumstances or mind-reading in
an effort to justify your application. Evidence for the concepts is included in each case study.
Ethical Reasoning Application
Each case study has at least one ethical issue to consider. Utilizing the elements of
behavioral ethics, apply at least one ethical reasoning concept to your chosen case study.
Ethical Concept
Provide a brief description of the ethical concept that is evident in your case study, and
include a citation and reference to the source of your information about the concept. This section
reveals your understanding of the ethical concept.
Supportive Evidence
Describe the relevant details from the case study that support your conclusion that this
ethical issue is applicable in your case. This section reveals your ability to identify the clues or
markers that indicate the presence of the ethical concept.
Critical Thinking Application
Each case study displays at least one critical thinking issue. Utilizing the standards of
critical thinking, identify and apply at least one critical thinking concept in your case study.
Critical Thinking Issue
Provide a brief description of the critical thinking issue that is evident in your case study,
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and include a citation and reference to the source of your information about the concept. This
section reveals your understanding of the critical thinking concept.
Supportive Evidence
Describe the relevant details from the case study that support your conclusion that this
critical thinking issue is applicable in your case. This section reveals your ability to identify the
clues or markers that indicate the presence of the critical thinking concept.
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References (separate page)
Baumeister, R. F., & Bushman, B. J. (2021). Social psychology and human nature (5th ed.).
Cengage.