Psychology

One of the articles focus on the choice of women to adopt their husbands sir name, while the other focuses on and whether kids should be given incentives in order to perform well in their school work. The two articles present a good picture of attribution theory of social psychology. The authors describe the difference of personalities of the women who choose to use their husbands wife, and the characters of students who are motivated by incentives in order to carry out their work in a successful manner. The articles also describe the difficulties faced by the victims. The articles are well related with incidents that relate to the theories of social psychology as discussed below.

DISCUSSION
According to Stotland and Lance (124), social psychology is the study of how peoples behavior and feelings are influenced by the perception of others. This calls for study of peoples perception and motives. Rampell (2010), relates the article relates well with the social cognition theories by describing the way people try to study the socially available information. Through this, he points out the peoples claims of women who take their husbands first name being viewed as more caring, more dependable as they are more emotional, and they are less competent in their work In terms of the Intelligence Quotient (IQ). Rampell (2010) points out that women who use their husbands name were found to be less intelligent than the once who do not use at all.

Rampell (2010) has also incorporated the use of interest and attention in relationship to the attribution theory definition. This theory is concerned with different interpretation of events and relates them to peoples thoughts and behavior. This is clearly seen where another experiment was done by asking students to judge the preferred candidates for a human resources vacancy and portrays that the women were more likely to be hired are the ones who never took their husbands  names. This can lead to an insight of women not using their husbands surname.

Ripley (2010) article is well related to the attribution theory that deals with how people interpret events and relate them to their way of life and thus, affecting a persons motivation. This is shown where Ethans mother made him an offer to stay for a period of one month without watching television programs for a reimbursement fee of 200. The parents who pay their sons money in order to serve as motivators for performance improvement also show this. Ripley (2010) shows the internal attribute as the cause of the reimbursement behavior as being within the person. The reimbursement behavior is the variable that makes a person responsible for not working to the expected standards thus creating an attitude as well as the external attributes through the showing of check.

Ripley (2010) relates the article by attribution theory, which shows motivation of students that, describes the mode of persons reasoning defense and justification about self or others influence surrounding them. This theory shows that the motivating factors that are influence achievement or a childs cognitive ability is the use of money rather than effort, ability or level of task difficulty. The author states the things, which are beyond our control such as abstaining from watching the television, as well as the unstable factors, which are beyond the parent control.

CONCLUSION
Social psychology being the study of how peoples behavior and feelings are influenced by the perception of others is clearly shown in the above articles. The author presented the ideas in a good manner since they apply good examples in their articles.