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Learning Objectives 14
Social Psychology
Chapter 14 Social Psychology
(AP Psychology Scoring Criteria 16)
Lesson One: Pages 552-559 Social Thinking
March 9
Vocabulary:
Social Psychology, attribution theory, fundamental attribution error, attitude, peripheral route
persuasion, central route persuasion, foot-in-the-door phenomenon, role, cognitive dissonance theory
Reading Questions:
14-1: What do social psychologists study? How do we tend to explain others’ behavior and our
own?
14-2: Does what we think affect what we do, or does what we do affect what we think?
Lesson Two: Pages 459-566
Social Influence
March 10
Vocabulary:
Normative social influence, informational social influence
Reading Questions:
14-3: What is automatic mimicry, and how do conformity experiments reveal the power of social
influence?
14-4: What did Milgram’s obedience experiments teach us about the power of social influence?
Lesson Three: Pages 556-572 Group Behavior
March 13
Vocabulary:
Social facilitation, social loafing, deindividuation, group polarization, groupthink
Reading Questions:
14-5: How is our behavior affected by the presence of others?
14-6: What are group polarization and groupthink, and how much power do we have as individuals?
Lesson Four: Pages 572-579
Social Relations
March 14
Vocabulary:
Prejudice, stereotype, discrimination, just-world phenomenon, ingroup, outgroup, ingroup bias,
scapegoat theory, other-race effect
Reading Questions:
14-7: What is prejudice? What are its social and emotional roots?
14-8: What are the cognitive roots of prejudice?
Lesson Five: Pages 579-585
Aggression
March 15
Chapter 14 Reading Quiz 1 
Vocabulary:
Aggression, frustration-aggression principle, social script
Reading Questions:
14-9: How does psychology’s definition of aggression differ from everyday usage? What biological
factors make us more prone to hurt one another?
14-10: What psychological and social-cultural factors may trigger aggressive behavior?
Lesson Six: Pages 586-591
Attraction
Vocabulary: Mere exposure effects
Reading Questions:
14-11: Why do we befriend or fall in love with some people but not with others?
March 16
Lesson Seven: Pages 591-596
Romance and Altruism
March 17
Vocabulary:
Passionate love, compassionate love, equity, self-disclosure, altruism, bystander effect, social
exchange theory, reciprocity norm, social-responsibility norm
Reading Questions:
14-12: How does romantic love typically change as time passes?
14-13: When are people most--and least--likely to help?
14-14: How do social exchange theory and social norms explain helping behavior?
Lesson Eight: Pages 597-601
Conflict and Peacemaking
March 20
Vocabulary:
Conflict, social trap, mirror-image perceptions, superordinate goals, GRIT
Reading Questions:
14-15: How do social traps and mirror-image perceptions fuel social conflict?
14-16: How can we transform feeling of prejudice, aggression, and conflict into attitudes that
promote peace?
CH. 14
Learning Objective 14 Assessments
Notebook Check (Mar. 21) Chapter 14 Reading Quiz 2
Chapter 14 Exam (March 22)
What should I know from Chapter 14?
a. Apply attribution theory to explain motives (e .g., fundamental attribution error, self-serving
bias).
b. Describe the structure and function of different kinds of group behavior (e.g., deindividuation,
group polarization).
c. Explain how individuals respond to expectations of others, including groupthink,
conformity, and obedience to authority.
d. Discuss attitudes and how they change (e.g., central route to persuasion).
e. Predict the impact of the presence of others on individual behavior (e.g., bystander effect,
social facilitation).
f. Describe processes that contribute to differential treatment of group members (e.g., in-group/out
-group dynamics, ethnocentrism, prejudice).
g. Articulate the impact of social and cultural categories (e.g., gender, race, ethnicity) on
self-concept and relations with others.
h. Anticipate the impact of behavior on a self-fulfilling prophecy.
i. Describe the variables that contribute to altruism, aggression, and attraction.
j. Discuss attitude formation and change, including persuasion strategies and cognitive dissonance.
k. Identify important figures in social psychology (e.g., Solomon Asch, Leon Festinger,
Stanley Milgram, Philip Zimbardo).
(CollegeBoard, 2014)