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Monday, September 18
AIM : Quiz
CH14HW1 Read pp. 565-567
1. Describe the purpose and significance of the Stanford Prison Experiment?
2. How was Tommy Whitlow impacted by the experiment?
3. How were the guards and the prisoners selected?
4. How did each of the two groups change during the experiment?
5. What role did the power of the situation play in the experiment?
6. How does our subjective social reality play in the outcome of the experiment?
7. How did Zimbardo create a prison like setting?
8. What surprised the participants as well as Professor Zimbardo?
9. Explain how social psychologists explain human behavior.
10. Why is social context so important in social psychology?
11. Identify the three important themes that emerged from social psychology
Tuesday, September 19
Return Return Quiz
Aim: What is the significance of the Stanford Prison Experiment?
CH14HW2:
- Describe an example in your own life, you got "lost in the crow/ followed the crowd"
- What did you do that you normally would not do if your parents or family was around?
- Why was it difficult to be your own person and not follow the crowd?
- Why do you think on Halloween more crime and vandalism occurs than other night of the year?
Wednesday, September 20
Aim: How does the group impact on behavior?
CH14HW3: Read pp. 568-570
- Why do social psychologists believe the power of the situation is a powerful determinant of human behavior?
- What is the difference between dispositions and situationism?
- What are the two key factors in the situation which determine how people behave?
- Explain the following terms roles, scripts, and social norms
- What two ways would the freshman class of 2020 adjust to St. John's Prep social norms?
- Identify the key forces which determine social norms.
QUIZLET - Review first ten vocabulary words
Thursday, September 21
Aim: How powerful is the role of the situation in understanding human behavior?
CH14HW4: Read pp. 571-574
- What is the Chameleon Effect?
- How did the Asch experiment illustrate the psychological effect of conformity?
- Define the term conformity.
- What are the three major reasons people conform?
- What reasons are given for those that do not conform?
- Go to the video link and describe the Asch Effect
- Explain the term Group Think
- What factors promote Group Think?
- What lessons would Irving Janis suggest to President Trump in dealing with our "enemies"?
Friday
, September 22Aim: What is the Asch Effect?
CH14HW5: Text read 574-578
- Why are people obedient to authoritarian figures?
- The text identifies several examples of people blindly following orders. Why do you believe people do this?
- Describe the Milgram Experiment? What surprised you about the results?
- What variables impacted on the participant's compliance?
- Why would this experimentbe illegal today?
- Why do people obey authority?
- Review your answer to #2 - Has your answer changed?
- What role does another person who refuses to obey have on the "teachers"?
QUIZ IS MOVED TO WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
Monday, September 25
Aim: Describe the impact of the Milgram Experiment
HW: CH14HW6: Read pp.579-583
- Why was the Kitty Genovese murder important to psychologists Latane and Darley?
- How did Latane and Darley create an analagous experiment to prove the Bystander Effect?
- What was the dependent and independent variable in the study?
- What was the best predictor of bystander intervention? Why?
- What factors often can contribute to helping?
- Complete Do It Yourself - What determined if the Samaritan was Good or Bad?
- Psychology in Your Life p582
- What determines how you dress more often than not according to social psychologists?
Tuesday, September 26
Aim: What did psychologists learn from the Kitty Genovese Case
HW STUDY FOR QUIZ /WATCH VIDEO - QUESTIONS ON VIDEO WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE QUIZ
Wednesday, September 27
NO HW - STUDY FOR QUIZ
QUIZ - 40 QUESTIONS PLUS FRQ
Thursday, September 28
AIM-QUIZ
CH14HW8:
1. Sign up for Harvard's Project Implicit on Social Attitudes
Test takes approximately 13 minutes
2. Review the following Compliance Strategies
- Foot in the Door/ low ball technique/switch and bait
- Door in the Face
- Reciprocity Technique
- Integration Technique
Friday, September 29
Aim:Explain the roots of prejudice, discrimination and bias.
CH14HW9:Read Text pp. 587-601
- Explain cognitive dissonance and provide an example of how you have recently experienced cognitive dissonance in your own life.
- What are the two ways people reduce cognitive dissonance?
- How does understanding cognitive dissonance help us understand human behavior?
- Explain what a cognitive attribution is.
- Explain the fundamental attribution error (FAE)
- Why are Fundamental Attribution Errors not as fundamental as they appear?
- What is the difference between a situational and a dispositional attribution?
- What is an attributional charity?
- Why is a self-serving bias an example of a double standard?
- How is prejudice different than discrimination?
- What factors contribute to prejudice according to social psychologists?
- Explain the terms in-group and out-group - Does this fit into your own experience as a student, in your community among your peers? Explain
- Explain how scapegoating takes place.
- How does society combat against prejudice
TEST FOR ALL OF CHAPTER 14 IS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5
Monday, October 2
Aim: How can we change attitudes?
CH14HW10:Textbook pp. 596-601
- How does the power of the situation tie into violence and terrorism?
- How did Sherif's Robber's Cave Experiment illustrate how conflict can occur and how conflict can be diffused.
- Why is Sherif's study a valuable lesson?
- Define the terms- mutual interdependence, Contact Theory, superordinate goal, cohesiveness, & jigsaw strategy
- According to Jonathan Lash what ingredients are often crucial to fuel terrorism?
- Identify the key tactics employed by terrorist organizations?
- How has Herbert Kelman tried to reduce the rise of hostility in Israel?
- Read Psychology in Your Life p. 599 Why is it important to have multiple perspectives when trying to combat terrorism?
- Identify three types of aggression and give an example of how you have experiences this in your own life
TEST ON CHAPTER 14 WILL BE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5
Tuesday, October 3
Aim: How do psychologists explain the roots of violence, terrorism and aggression?
CH14HW11:Read 584-587
- Explain Eliot Sorenson's Reward Theory of Attraction
- Identify and explain the four sources of reward that predict attraction.
- Rank the four rewards in terms of importance 1-4 / 1 being most important in your own experience. Explain
- Identify the exceptions to the Reward Theory
- Explain the Matching Hypothesis
- Explain Expectancy Value Theory
Wednesday, October 4
Aim: What psychological factors are instrumental in forming relationships?
TEST IS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5
Review terms, notes and hw.
Be sure to check Quizlet for all Vocabulary terms for chapter 14
Friday, October 6
Test will be Thursday, October 12 - all of chapter 14
CH14HW12: Due Tuesday- Watch the documentary: A Class Divided based on an experiment done by a third-grade teacher following the death of Martin Luther King in 1968.
QUESTIONS TO ANSWER: Looking at the Structures that Nurture Bias
- What features did Elliott ascribe to the superior and inferior groups and how did those characteristics reflect stereotypes about blacks and whites?
- How did Elliott's discrimination create no-win situations for those placed in the inferior group?
- How did she selectively interpret behavior to confirm the stereotypes she had assigned?
- It's easy to understand why third-graders might not refuse to obey their teacher, but when the exercise is done with the prison guards, why don't any of the adults object?
REVIEW
IGNORE ASSIGNMENTS BELOW - NO CREDIT WIL BE GIVEN
interesting website - Are you biased? Go to Harvard Website - Project Implicit
**Do something that might be viewed as strange/unacceptable/unexpected to others.**
For example:
Stand in the middle of the food court at the mall for 10 minutes doing nothing or maybe singing to yourself, or something else (don’t undress!) and see what others do; cut in a long line at a store, baseball game, movies, etc. and see the reaction of others; talk to yourself, loudly, in mixed company, and observe what others do/say; sing your order at a fast-food restaurant; talk within 6 inches of another person's face in a conversation; hug a stranger; ride with people in an elevator while facing the back wall; sit with someone they didn't know well in the library when most other tables were empty; avoid eye contact or used intense eye contact when talking to another person; sit at a table with people you don’t know at a restaurant;walk up to people you don't know in the local mall and tie other people’s shoes for them; repeat everything the other person says before you responded to the other person; stand close to people in a store aisle as they looked at products they might want to purchase; eat a banana like a watermelon; ignore your friends, no matter what they say…you get the idea.
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