Problem 1: Someone has been giving you a very hard time at work recently, ridiculing you in meetings, talking about you behind your back, yelling at you with no provocation. This person's actions have made you very angry and you have been fantasizing about punching them.
A) What information would you need to know to determine what type of aggression the other person is displaying? Provide an example of information that would lead you to conclude each type.
B) Based on what you read in the textbook, how could you more appropriately deal with your anger so that it does not lead to aggression?
Problem 2: You have been hired by an advocacy group to consult on their efforts to reduce prejudice & discrimination towards immigrants in Canada. To help the group you are to draw on your knowledge of social categorization processes to provide the following information:
A) How and why does group membership and social categorization contribute to prejudice and discrimination?
B) How would you harness social categorization processes in a media campaign consisting of images to be shared on social media and displayed on billboards, to hopefully reduce prejudice and discrimination faced by immigrants to Canada? Make sure to provide details about what such images would contain and justify your decisions by explaining their function.