ORIGINAL essay with APA references needed.  The overall subject is social cognition.  Approx 800-1000 words covering the following information:

1. Demonstrate your ability to analyze and critique those assumptions, principles, and any associated empirical findings. Your analysis will break apart these ideas and discuss how they work together as well as discussing the implications of the position, as a whole. Your critique will evaluate the worth or effectiveness of both the theory and methods developed and employed in the study or studies that develop the ideas.

2. Since these traditions have been around for a while, they have each developed subsequent literatures. You should find what recent social psychologists have done with your research tradition, both pro and con, and add to their discussions of these theoretical principles and empirical findings.

3. Identify a specific event or events either in your own life or in public discourse (or both). Briefly the event(s), including how you understood them before you attempted to apply these social psychological concepts. Critique your pre-existing notions. What are their strengths and weaknesses.