| Assignment Number 2 Discussion/Writing Assignment Aronson Preface (ix-xi). Aronson Chapter 1 (1-20). Aronson Chapter 2 (21-44). Aronson Chapter 3 (45-67). |
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Name _____________________ Date due: September 7, 2004 Psychology/Criminal Justice 317 Hal S. Bertilson, Ph.D. |
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| Please staple the questions to your answers or write out the questions as well as the answers. Having the questions available in the small group will facilitate discussion. |
| 1. | Aronson and his colleagues have discovered two main ways of transforming the general atmosphere of schools from highly competitive, cliquish, exclusionary places. What are those ways? Do you think this strategy is needed in the schools you are familiar with? Please explain. (16-17) | ||
| 2. | What is Aronson's First Law? How does it assist us in understanding The Massacre at Jonestown (1978) and The Heaven's Gate Suicides (1997)? How does it understand the Milgram (1963) destructive obedience experiments? (28) | ||
| 3. | Several months after the Columbine massacre, Joanne Jacobs asserted that Harris and Klebold committed those murders not out of rage or revenge, but simply because they were evil. According to Aronson, this kind of analysis is problematic for at least two reasons. What are these reasons? Do you think these reasons and Aronson's analysis applies to Osama bin Laden, too? Please explain. (33-34) | ||
| 4. | Could anyone have predicted the Columbine massacre? Explain why. (34-44) | ||
| 5. | What are your reactions to the Aronson chapter on pump handle interventions? What interested you? What surprised you? Do you believe his analysis is accurate? Explain. (45-67) | ||
| 6. | Give an example from your personal experience or from observing other people or in the media of negative reinforcement (lecture). | ||
| 7. | Give an example from your personal experience or from observing other people or in the media of negative punishment (lecture). | ||