Milestone 2. Social learning

Milestone 2. Social learning

Instructions

Milestone 2 Assessment

Submit a document answering each of the following questions.

Each answer should be 200-250 words long and refer specifically to content from this section in-text citations*.

You should NOT be using any external resources.

1. Describe a time when you learned new information or new behaviors through operant, associational, or observational learning.
2. Think about a time when you made a snap judgment about another person. Did your expectations about people influence your judgment of this person? Was the judgment fair or unfair? Do you think that your expectations influence how you respond to people?
3. Give an example of a time when you may have committed one of the cognitive errors listed in Table 2.1 “How Expectations Influence Our Social Cognition”. What factors (e.g., availability? salience?) caused the error, and what was the outcome of your use of the shortcut or heuristic.
4. Describe a time you learned or practiced "doing gender"

*For this class, you can reference text excerpts like this: (Jhangiani & Tarry 2022).

All text excerpts are from Jhangiani, R., & Tarry, H. (2022). If there is a quote or reference within a text excerpt; you include both the original author and year and the author and year of the work where quote/idea was found in the in-text reference. Add "as cited in" before the author in the in-text reference. For example - (Deutsch & Gerard, 1955, as cited in Jhangiani & Tarry, 2022).

Mini lectures/Key Takeaways like this:
(Leduc, Summer 2026)

And videos like this
(Title of Video, Youtube 2026)