Instructions: require you to use your critical thinking skills and your writing ability to address a question of primary importance: How will you analyze social psychological concepts demonstrated in a movie?

In order to be able to successfully answer this question, you must be able to analyze and synthesize social psychological concepts and be able to apply them to your speculations concerning your movie.

In your final paper, you will need to: Create 8 pages (APA format reference page) in APA format in which you analyze and synthesize social psychological concepts and apply them to the chosen movie “Pursuit of Happyness.”

· Introduce and summarize the movie and indicate why you have chosen it, and then explain what you have learned in social psychology which applies to the movie.

· Watch the movie and describe research methods used in peer-reviewed journals to explain social psychological phenomena.

· Briefly describe the relevant scene(s)

· Describe in detail the social psychological principles that you believe are relevant

· Elaborate on how the selected scene(s) conforms and/or fails to conform to the social psychological principles you have identified

· Explain the major social psychological concepts, theories, perspectives, and organizational problems displayed in the movie

· Conclude with a short discussion to combine everything together

Your paper will make use of two sources. The first source is your textbook itself. You can select the SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY concepts /topics below:

· Social Learning Theory

· Attitude Change

· Social Identity Theory

· Social Comparison Theory

· Self-verification theory

· Cognitive Dissonance Theory

· Attribution Theory

The second source is 3 articles from a refereed (peer-reviewed) journal (an American Psychological Association journal published within the last seven years) which addresses one of the social psychological concepts or topics relevant to your chosen movie.

Your paper must be done using APA formatting style which includes:

A title page with the title in the middle of the page

Page numbering in the upper right corner beginning with 1 on the title page

In-text citations in APA format (that means the citation follows either the quote or the paraphrase of the information provided)