Name-Surname: Züleyha KIZILAĞIL

Student id: 173407054

PSY242 Social Psychology II Midterm I
1. Please discuss how would you convince/persuade people to follow COVID-19
outbreak measures taken by government (using your knowledge on attitude). Please
also mention why some people follow the measures and some others not.

Attitudes are important because they determine what we do and attitudes do

sometimes change when the right communication skills used. In this period, the
government manage this covid-19 process via TV and internet. Especially celebrity
people have a big responsibility because of their sphere of influence. In the 2020
society, celebrities a type for people their ideas and arguments are immediatly
accepted in their followers. In this case they use ‘peripheral route to persuasion’
which people do not elaborate on the arguments. In most countries, precautions were
implemented quickly just because personal relevance. As this virus affects the whole
world, it is in the interest of every person. And when an issue is personally relevant,
people pay attention more. One way to get peoplel’s attraction is to scare them (fear-
arousing communication) for example, during this period, people understood the
importance of physical contact, people can not physically contact their relatives as
before just because the virus. In order to end this, some advertisement point out that
people will never hug again. Moreover, most experts participated in the discussion
program on the TV and all healthcare professionals made statements about the severity
of the virus. For example, sales of cologne increased with the recommendation of an
expert. Hand washing habit was not as common as I thought, some countries have
started to supply some of the water used at home to gain the habit of hand washing.
The process works when people take precautions as a responsibility towards society,
not individual perspectives. It is important to inform all status people.
2. Please create a relationship scenario starting from initial attraction to break up (e.g.,
what makes you attracted, bonding, relationship dynamics, and break-up process).

Helga was in an emotional emptiness and she was getting reactions like ‘why are you
alone and why don't you have a boyfriend’. In the meantime, Helga thought about the
features that her boyfriend should have. Her criteria were pretty much because she is
securely attached individual who have trusting, lasting relationships, good self-esteem,
comfortable sharing feelings with partners and friends. She waiting for someone with
these features and found it difficult to find someone else with these features so she
made a totem. She believes that the first person to enter the door would be her future
husband. At that point, Justin entered the door. Helga thought that firstly they should
be friends because one of the simpliest determinants of attraction is proximity so they
started spending time together. After a while she realized that they were not a
compatible couple. Justin was rich and handsome but they couldn’t have fun together,
their ideas were debate. She was jealous of the happy relationships of other couples.
These conflicts are not problem for Justin because his comparison level for
alternatives is high, he can break up easily but this not valid for Helga. She wants to
devote herself to this relationship because long-term interactions are more related to
the desire to help each other but Justin did not strive for the future of this relationship.
And Helga left him and wanted to remain friends, but Justin did not accept because he
was abandoned.