1. AP PSYCHOLOGY Unit XIV - Overview
Attribution, Attitudes, and Actions – Module 74
Conformity and Obedience – Module 75
Group Behavior – Module 76
Prejudice and Discrimination – Module 77
Aggression – Module 78
Attraction – Module 79
Altruism, Conflict, and Peacemaking – Module 80

2. To aid in your note taking… I suggest that you print these as note pages. As you read each day, use them to add your own notes.

3. Social Psychology Introduction Module 74 Attribution, Attitudes, and Actions

4. Introduction Social Psychology
What is the focus of the social psychologist?

5. The Fundamental Attribution Error
Attribution theory
Dispositional vs. situational attribution
Examples:
Fundamental attribution error
Self-serving bias
Example:

6. Attitudes and Actions Attitudes Affect Actions
Central route persuasion
Example:
Peripheral route persuasion

7. The Foot-in-the-Door Phenomenon
Attitudes and Actions Actions Affect Attitudes: The Foot-in-the-Door Phenomenon
The Foot-in-the-Door Phenomenon
“start small and build”
Example:

8. Role-Playing Affects Attitudes
Attitudes and Actions Actions Affect Attitudes: Role Playing Affects Attitudes
Role-Playing Affects Attitudes
Role - Stanford prison study
Who and what?
Abu Ghraib

9. Cognitive Dissonance: Relief From Tension
Attitudes and Actions Actions Affect Attitudes: Cognitive Dissonance: Relief from Tension
Cognitive Dissonance: Relief From Tension
Cognitive dissonance theory
Example:
“Attitudes follow behavior”

10. Conformity: Complying With Social Pressures – Module 75

11. Conformity: Complying With Social Pressures Automatic Mimicry
Chameleon effect
Example:
Mood linkage

12. Conformity Solomon Asch study Describe:
Conformity: Complying With Social Pressures Conformity and Social Norms
Conformity
Solomon Asch study
Describe:

13. Conformity: Complying With Social Pressures Conformity and Social Norms Draw Figure 75.1 and explain

14. Conditions That Strengthen Conformity
Conformity: Complying With Social Pressures Conformity and Social Norms
Conditions That Strengthen Conformity
One is made to feel incompetent or insecure
Group has at least three people
Group is unanimous
One admires the group’s status
One has made no prior commitment
Others in group observe one’s behavior
One’s culture strongly encourages respect for social standards

15. Reasons for Conforming
Conformity: Complying With Social Pressures Conformity and Social Norms
Reasons for Conforming
Normative social influence
Example:
Informational social influence

16. Obedience: Following Orders
Milgram’s studies on obedience
Procedure
Results
Ethics
Follow up studies

17. Obedience: Following Orders Lessons From the Obedience Studies
Ordinary people being corrupted by an evil situation
What did these experiments demonstrate?

18. Social Facilitation Social Facilitation Task difficulty Example
Expertise effects
Crowding effects

19. Social Loafing Social Loafing Define. Reasons why? Less accountability
View themselves as dispensable

20. Deinviduation
Deindividuation
With an example, can you describe?

21. Group Polarization
Group Polarization
Discuss.

22. Group Polarization
Group Polarization

23. Groupthink Groupthink Bay of Pigs What? Challenger explosion
How does this relate to Groupthink?

24. The Power of Individuals
Social control vs personal control
Difference?
Minority influence
Example:

25. Cultural Influences Culture Culture within animals What?
Culture in humans

26. Cultural Influences Variation Across Cultures
Norm
Culture shock
Example:
Pace of life

27. Cultural Influences Variation Over Time
Changes over the generations
What?

28. Prejudice
Prejudice
Example:
Stereotype
Discrimination

29. Prejudice How Prejudiced Are People? Summarize:

30. Prejudice Social Roots of Prejudice: Social Inequalities
Just world phenomenon
Example:
Blame the victim
What?

31. Prejudice Social Roots of Prejudice: Us and Them: Ingroup and Outgroup
Example:
Outgroup:
Ingroup bias

32. Prejudice Emotional Roots of Prejudice
Scapegoat theory
What?
Economic variables
Negative emotions

33. Prejudice Cognitive Roots of Prejudice
Categorization
Outgroup homogeneity
Other-race effect
Examples:
Vivid cases
Believing the world is just
Hindsight bias
Example:

34. The Biology of Aggression
Genetic Influences
What?
Neural Influences
Biochemical Influences

35. Social and cultural influences
Psychological and Social-Cultural Factors in Aggression Aversive Events
Aversive Events
Frustration-aggression principle
Example:
Social and cultural influences
Aggression-replacement program

36. Psychological and Social-Cultural Factors in Aggression Aversive Events:
Reinforcement and Modeling
Aggression-replacement program
What?
Media Model for Violence
Social scripts
Example:
What does your author say about violent video games teaching social scripts for violence?

37. The Psychology of Attraction Proximity
Mere exposure effect
Example:

38. The Psychology of Attraction Physical Attractiveness
Example:

39. The Psychology of Attraction Similarity
Positive correlation between similarity and liking
Yes or No?
Reward theory of attraction
Example:

40. Romantic Love Love Passionate love What? Companionate love Equity
Example:
Self-disclosure

41. Altruism Altruism Kitty Genovese Who? Bystander Intervention
Diffusion of responsibility
What?
Bystander effect
Example:

42. Altruism Figure 80.1 Draw or summarize.

43. Altruism Summarize Figure 80.2

44. Altruism The Norms for Helping
Social exchange theory
Example:
Reciprocity norm
Social-responsibility norm Example:

45. Conflict and Peacemaking Elements of Conflict
Example:
Social trap
What is the non-zero sum game?
Summarize Figure 80.3.

46. Conflict and Peacemaking Elements of Conflict: Enemy Perceptions
Mirror-image perceptions
Example:
Self-fulfilling prophecy

47. Conflict and Peacemaking Promoting Peace
Contact
Example:
Cooperation
What?
Superordinate goals

48. Conflict and Peacemaking Promoting Peace
Communication
Example:
Conciliation
GRIT – What?
Which social psychologist advocated this strategy?

49. Now what? It would behoove you to answer the MC questions at the end of each Module. If you would like the correct answers, come see me before or after school! 