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Unit 5: Social Psychology EQ 1 : What is conformity?

Unit 5: Social Psychology EQ 1 : What is conformity?. BR: Explain an instance in which you behaved in a certain way because everyone else did. Do you think it was good or bad that you acted like everyone else?

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Unit 5: Social Psychology EQ 1 : What is conformity?

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  1. Unit 5: Social PsychologyEQ 1 : What is conformity? BR: Explain an instance in which you behaved in a certain way because everyone else did. Do you think it was good or bad that you acted like everyone else? Explain an instance in which you behaved differently than a group did. Do you think this was good or bad?

  2. Which letter is the same as exhibit 1?

  3. Social influence: the exercise of social power by a person or group to change the attitudes or behavior of others in a certain direction • Conformity: A yielding to perceived group pressure. Conformity can be positive and/or negative. • Social Norm: An expected way to behave and believe that is established and enforced by a group

  4. Videos: http://heroicimagination.org/online-lessons/lesson-1/

  5. Reflection • What happens when people do not conform to social norms? Think of a movie or book in which a person does not conform and explain what happens to that person.

  6. BR: Explain how conformity can be positive and negative

  7. Cell Phone picture Assignment • You have 5 minutes • Find a photo of positive conformity and negative conformity • Email them to me jajilek@cps.edu • Present your 2 photos to the class

  8. EQ: What is obedience? • Do you consider yourself an obedient person? Why or why not? • Do you think obedience in necessary in society? Why or why not?

  9. Obedience: The performance of an action in response to a direct order • Video Questions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYv3J12pARM • 1. How was Millgram’s shock study run? • 2. What were the results of Millgram’sstudy? What did it prove? • 3. How was Zimbardo’s prison study run? • 4. What were the results? What did this prove? • 5. How do these studies connect to groups in history such as the Nazis? • 6. What are your opinions of these studies?

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