Download Ms. Cabrera AP Psychology 2015-2016 Unit I

Ms. Cabrera
AP Psychology
2015-2016
Unit I-Social Psychology (8-10% of the AP Exam)
10 class periods (8 Block, 2 Short)
This part of the course focuses on how individuals relate to one another in social situations. Social psychologists study social attitudes,
social influence, and other social phenomena.
Essential Questions:
 How do people explain (or attribute) the behavior of others?
 What impact do these attributions have on individuals and society as a whole?
 How are individuals affected by groups?
 Under what conditions do people obey, conform, make friendships, find love, and help others?
 How do attitudes and actions influence individual and group behavior?
 How do psychologists define culture? What influence does culture have on individuals and groups?
Objectives:
 Differentiate between situational and dispositional attribution.
 Identify the conditions in which people are more likely to conform and obey.
 Determine how the presence of others influences actions.
 Evaluate why people are attracted to each other.
 Describe the conditions under which people are more likely to help others.
 Differentiate among the terms prejudice, stereotype, and discrimination.
 Determine the biological and social contributors to aggressive behavior.
 Define culture and how it develops.
 Identify important figures in social psychology, including but not limited to Solomon Asch, Leon Festinger, Stanley
Milgram, Philip Zimbardo)
First Day of School 8/24 C
Registration, Course Expectations, I’m A Five Activity, Find Praise Article.
HW: Read “The Perils of Praise” for next class.
Day One 8/26 B
Activity-Grit, Reading Discussion-The Perils of Praise, Textbook checkout, Fact or Falsehood WS
HW: Complete Summer Assignment Discussion Questions, Book Talk on Thursday, August 28 th and Friday.
Day Two 8/28 B
Opening Skinner’s Box-Book Club Discussion, Introduction to Psychology, Fact or Falsehood WS
HW: Read pp. 643-650
Day Three 9/1 B
Lecture-Attribution Theory, Activity-Types of Attribution, Attribution Activity, Persuasion Activity, Cognitive Dissonance Activity.
HW: Review Asch and Zimbardo Readings in Opening Skinner’s Box, Bring Opening Skinner’s Box to Discuss Milgram
chapter also.
Day Four 9/3 B
Activity-Evaluate Asch and Zimbardo Studies, Evaluate Milgram Chapter
SAFMEDs 1-9, Read pp. 650-657
Day Five 9/9 B
SAFMEDs 1-9, Review-Attribution Theory, Lecture-Conformity and Obedience, Demo-Suggestibility, Group Activity-Impact of
Social Influence Studies.
HW: Read Text pp. 657-664, SAFMEDs 10-20.
Day Six 9/11B
SAFMEDs 1-20, AP Psychology Exam: What Does It Look Like?, Lecture-Group Think and Cultural Influences, Activity-Group
Think in Your Daily Lives.
HW: Read Text pp. 664-670, SAFMEDs 21-30.
Day Seven 9/15 B
SAFMEDs 1-30, Demo-Stereotypes and Prejudice, Lecture: Stereotypes and Prejudice, Activity-Just World Phenomenon.
HW: Read Text pp. 670-684, SAFMEDs 31-39.
Day Eight 9/17 B
SAFMEDs 1-39, Video-Mere Exposure Effect, Demo-Attraction, Lecture-Attraction and Aggression, Activity-Aggression
Questionnaire
HW: Read pp. 685-693, SAFMEDs 40-47.
Day Nine 9/18 C
Lecture-Altruism and Bystander Effect (Friends and Seinfeld), Group Discussion-The Bystander’s Dilemma, Demo: Commoners
Goldfish Dilemma, Lecture-Social Dilemmas: Prisoners v. Commoners Theory, Extra Credit-Commoners Dilemma
HW: Review Chapter 14
Day Ten 9/22 B
Conflict and Peacemaking Activity: The Missiles Game
Review Chapter 14, Unit Exam on Wednesday, September 23 A, 50 MC and 1 FRQ
Day Eleven 9/24 B
Unit I Exam: 50 MC and FRQ
HW: Unit II Syllabus: History and Approaches
Key Terms:
1. Social psychology
4. Attitude
7. Role
10. conformity
13. social loafing
16. group polarization
19. norm
22. stereotype
25. outgroup
27. Scapegoat theory
30. Aggression
33. passionate love
35. equity
38. bystander effect
41. social-responsibility norm
44. mirror-image perceptions
47. GRIT
2. attribution theory
5. central route persuasion
8. foot-in-the-door phenomenon
11. normative social influence
14. social facilitation
17. group think
20. personal space
23. discrimination
28. other-race effect
31. mere-exposure effect
34. companionate love
36. self-disclosure
39. social exchange theory
42. conflict
45. self-fulfilling prophecy
3. Fundamental attribution error
6. peripheral route persuasion
9. Cognitive dissonance theory
12. Informational social influence
15. Deindividuation
18. Culture
21. Prejudice
24. Ingroup
26. ingroup bias
29. just-world phenomenon
32. frustration-aggression principle
37. altruism
40. reciprocity norm
43. social trap
46. superordinate goals