Run through the work from last session, including the homework...
Students are to place the following in their workbooks:
Obedience
Obedience occurs when we follow
the commands of someone with authority, or the rules or laws of our society.
There are a number of factors that can influence obedience to an authority
figure. These include social proximity,
legitimacy of the authority figure and group pressure.
Move onto the Milgram Experiment - the overall question Milgram set out to investigate was how far people would go obeying an instruction if it involved hurting another person...
Watch the Milgram Obedience Study clip...
Discuss the implications of the study - what do the results actually mean???
Move onto the Milgram Experiment Role Play - see instruction sheet for details.
Once the role play has been completed students are to deconstruct the experiment using the research methods stated below - Title = The Milgram Experiment - An Obedience Study:
- Hypothesis
- IV & DV
- Method
- Participants
- Materials
- Procedure
- Results
- Conclusions
- Ethical Considerations
- Limitations
Run through the student's observations concerning the activity above - ensuring that all aspects are thoroughly covered.
Students are to place the following in their workbooks - Factors Affecting Obedience:
Social Proximity
Social Proximity refers to the
physical closeness between 2 or more people. It has been found that the closer the authority figure, the
more likely that obedience will occur.
Legitimacy of Authority Figure
Legitimacy of Authority Figure
refers to the perceived legitimacy of a person in authority. If a
person/group’s authority is deemed legitimate, obedience is more likely to
occur.
Group Pressure
Group Pressure refers to the
perceived pressure due to the presence of other members of the group. An
individual is more likely to be obedient when there is little or no group support
for resisting the authority figure.
Homework - due Wednesday 22nd August:
Students are to read through pages 204 - 206 of the textbook and complete CYU 7.2 in workbook.
Session 18 - Conformity
Run through the work from last session, including the homework...
Here's a link to a really interesting article about Milgram's experiment - more detail and raises some insightful ideas / theories:
http://www.simplypsychology.org/Milgram%20-%20Obedience.pdf
Following on from this watch a clip from 'How Violent Are You?' (36:50 - 59:41) - introduce the series and discuss main ideas.
Students are to place the following in their workbooks:
Conformity
Conformity refers to the tendency
to adjust one’s thoughts, feelings or behaviour in ways that are in agreement
with those of others, or with accepted standards about how a person should
behave in certain situations
Watch man in elevator clip...
Task: Come up with three past events / experiences / events where you had to conform - share with class.
Move onto Asch's Conformity Experiment - read through his studies on page 207 of the textbook. Watch the relevant clip and discuss...
Move onto the Mix & Match
Activity – will involve students reading 208, 209 & 210 and completing the
Factors Affecting Conformity Act 6.2 from Student Activity Manual – discuss
results.
Session 19 - Group Influence = Changing Behaviour
Run through the main ideas from last session - specific focus on Social Loafing..
Read through article:
http://www.spring.org.uk/2009/05/social-loafing-when-groups-are-bad-for-productivity.php
Move onto watching the London Riot mugging video and ask:
How do incidents like this happen?
List ideas up on the W/B and then lead onto the content below.Students to place the following in their workbooks under the heading Group Influence to Change Behaviour:
The Peer Group
The peer group is a group usually
made of people who have similar interests, do the same sorts of things and
associate or interact with one another on relatively equal terms.
E.g._______________________
Peer Pressure
Peer pressure refers to the
social influence of peers on each other, whether it is real or imagined. It can affect how the individual
thinks, feels and behaves.
Risk-taking Behavior
Risk-taking behaviour is
behaviour that has potential negative consequences, whether they are physical
or psychological. The outcome of
risk-taking behaviour is not always negative however.
Identify, as a classroom some
real life examples of risk –taking behaviour – place up on W/B. Maybe even rank
these examples from most to least risky…
Move onto the concept of young
people / risk-taking and driving – read through the stats and ideas on this
website:
Watch the Australian Story, 'Dumb and Dumber' - students need to highlight the reasons why these two boys did what they did...
Students are then to read through
pages 210 & 211 and complete ‘Check Your Understanding 7.4’ in their
workbooks - must be completed by next Wednesday.
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