Social Studies (2010) Grade(s): 09-12 - Psychology

SS10.P.16

Describe how attitudes, conditions of obedience and conformity, and other influences affect actions and shape human behavior, including actor-observer, self-server, social facilitation, social loafing, bystander effect, groupthink, and group polarization.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Their own notions and behaviors with social interactions.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Cite specific research-based evidence to support various processes in social psychology.
  • Summarize complex theories and concepts in social psychology into simpler, yet still accurate, terms.
  • Provide real-world examples for social psychology concepts.
  • Assess social psychology concepts using sound methodology with multistep procedures, analyzing the results in light of research presented in the text.
  • Evaluate the research in social psychology using multiple sources to verify, corroborate or challenge the conclusions drawn.
  • Synthesize information and research to address and issue in social psychology.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • There are ways in which individuals are influenced by groups and how groups are influenced by individuals.
  • There are ways that individuals reconcile actions and attitudes.
  • There are ways to promote cooperation among people.
  • There are ways to avoid prejudice and discrimination.
  • There are mechanisms for attracting and sustaining meaningful relationships.
  • Persuasion has an influence on behavior and mental processes.

Vocabulary

  • social psychology
  • attribution theory
  • cognitive dissonance
  • explanatory style
  • actor-observer bias
  • fundamental attribution error
  • situational attribution
  • dispositional attribution
  • self-serving bias
  • central route to persuasion
  • peripheral route to persuasion
  • foot-in-the-door phenomenon
  • conformity
  • normative social influence
  • social facilitation
  • social loafing
  • group polarization
  • groupthink
  • deindividuation
  • obedience
  • prejudice
  • stereotype
  • discrimination
  • ethnocentrism
  • contact hypothesis
  • in-group bias
  • out-group bias
  • scapegoat theory
  • just world phenomenon
  • other-race effect
  • social identity
  • ethnic identity
  • blaming the victim
  • mere exposure effect
  • passionate love
  • companionate love
  • equity
  • self-disclosure
  • altruism
  • bystander effect
  • diffusion of responsibility
  • reciprocity norm
  • social responsibility norm
  • social trap
  • conflict
  • superordinate goals
  • self-fulfilling prophecy
  • attitude
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