1. In your Interactive Notebook: Unit. Day 2
In your Interactive Notebook: Unit.Day 2.3 Bystander Effect, Social Facilitation, & Group Bias
Unit 2 – Social Psychology: ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS: How do people influence each other?
How do psychological factors affect decision-making?
DEAR
Friday Quiz
ON YOUR DESK: 1) reading journal
2) Daily commentary notebook 3)
Today’s OBJECTIVE(S) -- WRITE THESE DOWN:
I can define the bystander effect, social facilitation, and group polaraization
I can evaluate the effects of group membership on individual choice and behavior

2. Today’s Discussion Questions
Make sure your name is on the questions you submit, and that your question is unique.
This will be factored into your grade.

3. DQ’S, Updates & Reminders
BIG PICTURE
Friday Quizzes
September 13 & September 20
Projects Due
Reflection Paper: Why do good people do bad things?
Unit Exam:
Friday, September 27th
Tonight’s Homework:
RJ 2.4
Myers

4. The Kitty Genovese Story
You are walking down the street and hear a girl screaming “let me go, you’re not my dad!” you look over and see a man half leading, half pulling a 13 year old along behind him. What do you do?

5. Group Influence One person affecting another Families Teams Committees
How do groups affect our behavior? Social psychologists study various groups:
One person affecting another
Families
Teams
Committees

6. Social Loafing
The tendency of an individual in a group to exert less effort toward attaining a common goal than when tested individually (Latané, 1981).
Why should I bother when others will get it done for me?
EXAMPLES:
Group projects
Bystander effect

7. Deindividuation
The loss of self-awareness and self-restraint in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity.
Mob behavior

8. Deindividuation Mob behavior EXAMPLES
Lynchings (KKK robes/hoods remove individual idenity)
Beating of Rodney King
Fruitvale Station (though this has other complicating factors as well, such as power of role)
Mob behavior

9. Effects of Group Interaction
Group Polarization enhances a group’s prevailing attitudes through a discussion. If a group is like-minded, discussion strengthens its prevailing opinions and attitudes.
OBJECTIVE 11| Discuss how group interaction can facilitate group polarization and groupthink.

10. Group Polarization Examples
A juror who is leaning slightly towards one direction has that view strengthened by discussion with other jurors

11. Groupthink
A mode of thinking that occurs when the desire for harmony in a decision-making group overrides the realistic appraisal of alternatives.
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Kennedy and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Watergate Cover-up
Chernobyl Reactor Accident
The Military

12. Reviewing the Unit 1 Exam
MC Questions
The FRQ

13. Minorities in the News Project
Assignment Overview & Expectations
Rubric

14. Minority Studies Final Project
Oral Histories

15. Minority Studies
Book Project
Find book #17!!!!