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Jindal Global University
Jindal Global Law School
End-term Examination
Course Name : Leveraging psychology to better understand Society
and the Self
Course Code : L-EA-0135/Spring2022/JG
Programme :Cross élective
Duration : Spring22
Maximum Marks : 30
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Paper #1 Questions
Instructions
Listed below are 3 topics for sit-home final essays. Each requires answers tothe particular question and
should include no more than 10 sentences.
Each assay carries 10 marks (10 x 3=30 marks).
General Guidelines:
Students should demonstrate the ability to leverage main scientific categories and concepts of the psychologic
phenomena covered in class.
In the introduction you might establish a proof of relevance and importance of the topic.
Scientific background may include short analysis ofscientists’ theoretical ideas about the chosen issue.
The main part should describe the phenomenon. Data or other facts, even case studies as illustrations,
would be appreciated as scientific evidence of the analysed phenomena.
The conclusion should include scientifically grounded recommendations and predictions of the future
events based on your problem solving.
1. Social movement “Black lives matter!” was motivated by frustration of
basic social needs. Characterise them from the point of view their
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importance in individual well-being Provide examples of possible
satisfaction and failures.
People are susceptible to social influence "that meeting the basic social needs of personalities can make people
more aware of their own functioning as social beings”S.Fiske similarly the concept of belongingness helps us
answer the question WHO am I? The individual well being is affected, the study about happiness at berkely
University has demonstrated that group affiliation is good for health. The black lives matter was satisfaction
because it helped individual survived and raise awareness and fight for their rights.
Understanding the social need and the cognitive motivation in the black lives matter was the death of George
Floyd’s death by the white police men despite him claiming shortness of breath. The individual confidence,
self-confidence and assertiveness, of individual well being is generated. Shared understanding is adaptive for
survival as a group member and making sense of situations. The motive to understand describes why people
bother to make sense of each other, themselves, and various attitudes. Easy understanding and prediction also
drive both attraction to similar others and prejudice against dissimilar others. Carl Jung said that social
achievement are at the cost of individual personality, but in my limited understanding that’s in correct its
nothing but adding to our identity.
Need to control enhance peoples’ self-realization and self-insurance in groups functioning; the need and
motivation to control encourages people to feel competent and effective in dealing with their nearest and far
social environment and themselves; the need to control and frustration and lack of information and making an
impact was successful in the social movement and in order to feel good about themselves people enhance
themselves and sees themselves as socially valuable tool which was the case.
There was a failure of trust in the society in the social movement of Black Lives matter.
2. Collectivistic and individualistic social cultures have different influence on
the personality development. Features of what culture are visible in Indian
society. Provide examples of some national traditions in favour of it.
Aristotle as once said who is sufficient for themselves must either be god or beast and as Spencer mentioned it
is impossible to understand a personality without referring to the socio-cultural perspective. These statements
by both these philosophers give us an impactful understanding of how important is the social cultures in
reflecting the personality development for individuals.
Inhabitants of individualistic tend to view themselves as distinct and autonomous, those in collective cultures
view of self as a part of interdependent social network; a function of the self in collectivistic country directed by
need ” to fit in ”as a part of the group, in individualistic-”to stand out”. In Indian society, the concept of
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extended family and the high involvement of family and parents in marriage culture has generally reflects the
collectivistic social culture of India. The celebration of Diwali with lights and the group and the understanding
of being part of the group, the symbol of swastika and its understanding of it being sign of grace and good luck
all represent some national traditions that are in favor of the socialistic culture. The scholars have also reflected
how the environment of collectiveness helps in a better upbringing and mental health of the child.
The research by Greek Hofstede on 50 diifferent countries where the subjects were asked to rank the different
spheres of life reflected that in collectivist culture where children are taught to focus on developing harmonious
social relationships with others, and the predominant norms relate to group togetherness, connectedness, and
duty and responsibility to one’s family. People wanted very friendly group oriented on helping each other,
friendship but not on the revival reflects the characteristics of collectivistic culture.
Collectivistic culture encourages identification with the group, relations with family members, group norms,
mutual submission of clan members.
There are some cases in court procedure when culprit of serious crime in order to escape from
punishment started to imitate the symptoms of psychotic disorder. What kind of behaviour features are
typically being exposing?
Psychotic disorders(including neurodevelopmental mental disorders) a severe mental disorder in which thought
and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality.
The criminal exposes behavior where his senses are impaired such as hallucination, both as auditory and visual.
An example could be making a claim that I heard the order from moon to kill her. Hallucination can be both
simple and complex, they are divided into five categories visual, auditory, olfactory, taste and tactile. As the
Thorndike effect the connection between the Stimuli and Response is strengthened, if there is a boost .
Disorder) - a set of symptoms or conservative signs that pose as a hindrance to the normal functioning of the
individual. The reinforcement can be negative (pain, punishment, failure, criticism, shame etc.). avoid negative
reinforcement is dominant. Hathaway and McKinley used an empirical data with clinical scales derived by
selecting items that were endorsed by patients known to have been diagnosed with certain somatic disorders.
These are some of the features that criminals expose to escape punishment in serious crimes.
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