Download Homework for the Week of February 16-20

Homework for the Week of February 16-20
INTRO TO PSYCH
MONDAY – Intro to Psych
WARM-UP: On a blind date, what things do you base your decision on to determine if
you are going to go out with the person again?
Agenda:
 Pass out Social Psych Terms to study for Friday’s Test
How we judge others: Key components/principles of Person Perception & Attribution
 Social Categorization – Using Mental Shortcuts in Person Perception. How can this
lead to inaccurate conclusions? What does it ignore?
 Dangers of Person Perception/Labeling – the Rosenhan Hospital Study
 Implicit Personality Theory
o Physical Attractiveness: How does it influence our perception?The What is
Beautiful is Good Myth.
o Does the brain reward us for making eye contact with beautiful people?
o Physical Attractiveness and Its Effects on Perceptions of Academic Ability and
Effort – A Classic Study
 Attribution – the process of inferring the causes of people’s behavior, including one’s
own.
 Common Attribution Errors –Come up with an example from your own experience
for each and share with a classmate.
 Differences between cultures in the Fundamental Attribution Error
 Psychology: The Human Experience DVD: Segment 30: Social Cognition & Person
Perception: The Blind Date (6:16)
Assignments:
 Read about Attitudes & Prejudice for tomorrow pg. 460-462, 465-468.
 Finish your chart for Wednesday!
TUESDAY – Intro to Psych
WARM-UP: How do we develop our attitudes about people?
Agenda:
 Read A Few Extra Pounds Article while you wait for people to finish
Attitudes & Prejudice:
 A Class Divided DVD: Jane Elliot’s Blue-eyed vs. Brown-eyed experiment. (20 min)
Discuss this afterwards.
 How can we combat prejudice?
o Contact Theory
o Muzafer Sherif’s Robber’s Cave Experiment – cooperate to achieve a common
goal.
o Jigsaw Classroom Technique
o Debra Devine’s Three Step Process
 Racism is ethnocentrism with the power to enact it. Think back to Japanese
Internment Camps or Segregation.
 Martin Luther King Jr.’s observation about laws combating prejudice – Something
becomes law, then law becomes habit, and finally, habit becomes a matter of the heart
(that is emotional).
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Assignments:
 Have your chart finished for TOMORROW!!!
 Study Chart & Social Psych Terms for Friday’s Test
WEDNESDAY – Intro to Psych
WARM-UP: Is contact with others different from us enough to reduce prejudice or is
more needed?
Agenda:
 Chart is due today!
 Go over Attitudes & Prejudice PowerPoint
IF TIME ALLOWS:
 The Fallout Shelter In-Class Exercise. Based on the information, which 6 people
would you choose to go in the shelter?
 Psychology: The Human Experience DVD: Segment 31: Attitudes & Prejudicial
Behavior (6:06)
 If time allows, watch Scientific American Frontiers DVD: Segment 29 Power of
Persuasion (11:17)
 Do Concept Review on page 515 to review key concepts on prejudice.
 Play the game: “Score as Much as Possible!”
Assignments:
 Study Chart & Social Psych Terms for Friday’s Test
THURSDAY – Intro to Psych
NO SCHOOL – SNOW DAY
FRIDAY – Intro to Psych
WARM-UP: What is a concept or question you still have on this chapter?
Agenda:
 Pass back Social Psych Charts
 Finish up Attitudes & Prejudice PowerPoint
 Review for Test using Sociology Flash Cards PowerPoint and white boards
Assignments:
 Study Chart & Social Psych Terms for Monday’s Test