FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: Count off by 1 and 2. Assigning Responsibility: Who is to blame?

Scenario 1
Scenario 2

LEARNING TARGETS:

• Describe the difference between prejudice and discrimination.
• How does categorization lead to stereotyping?
• What is implicit bias and how does it effect us? Is there a way to combat it?

AGENDA:

• Go over EBQ on Memory & Note Taking from Friday. (Go over scoring rubric)
  
  
• Module 4.1 : Prejudice & Discrimination (Virtual Lecture watch up to 14:54)
  • What causes our brains to form prejudice towards & against certain groups.
  • Stereotypes and their role in prejudice.
  • Stereotypes and their role in prejudice. Watch sensitivity training scene from The Office: Season 1, Eposide 2 (Start at 1:19). Would you find this funny if you didn't already have these stereotypes in your mind? Where did they come from?
  • Can we accurately test for Hidden Prejudice? Alan Alda Finds out. (7 min)
    • Try it Yourself! Harvard Implicit Association Test - Complete this Implicit Association Test Internet Lab for (+1 extra credit)

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Read & take notes on Module 4.2: Attitude Formation & Change, Persuasion (pg. 468-474). Use this Social Psych Unit Study Outline to help focus your note taking - Due WEDNESDAY.
• Start studying for Memory Review Quiz covering Modules 2.3-2.7 - THURSDAY.

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

• ON YOUR OWN: Take notes on Modules 4.3c-d: Aggression & Attraction (pg. 496-513). You will be expected to do this on your own before test day. Use the Social Psych Unit Study Outline to guide your note taking.
• EXTRA CREDIT (Complete the Podcast Review handout + 1 pt each. Choose no more than 2): - You can create your own NY Times account using the school's access - Go to https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/digitalpass and using your school email, set up an account.
  • NY Times Article: Punishing Reach of Racism for Black Boys
  • Take the Harvard Implicit Association Test Internet Lab
  • Do We Have an Implicit Bias for Creativity? - NY Times Artcile
  • Invisibilia: The Power of Categories - How categories define who we are.
  • Invisibilia: How to Become Batman - How people's expectations influence us.
  • Invisibilia: Flip the Script - How to influence people? Do the opposite.
  • Listen to Does Money Make You Mean? TED Talk (10 min) - Write a summary about its findings, how it connects to class and your thoughts on this
  • Stereotype Threat in Women- An Example in Women & Science - Write a summary about its findings, how it connects to class and your thoughts on this
  • Nazi Summer Camps (30 min) - Why would U.S. citizens treat Nazi prisoners of war better than Japanese Americans? An interesting look at our treatment of our enemies versus our own people. Write a summary about its findings, how it connects to class and your thoughts on this.
  • How can Psychology Fix Our Government? TED Talk that answers this question (19 min) - Write a summary on the talk and discuss your thoughts about the topic. Do you agree or disagree with the main ideas? Explain your answer

FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: Why do you think people seem to be predisposed to favoring certain groups over others? What purpose does it serve?

LEARNING TARGETS:

• What is Devine's Automaticity Theory and what does it say is the key to overcoming our own implicit prejudice?
• What are the long term implications of being in a group that has a negative stereotype(s) associated with it?
• Describe the Just World Bias and how it leads to Blaming the Victim.
• How do social categories, in-groups and out-groups contribute to stereotyping?

AGENDA:

• Module 4.1 : Prejudice & Discrimination (Virtual Lecture watch 14:54 - 36:45)
  • Just World Bias & Blaming the Victim - a look at yesterday's Assigning Responsibility Demo.
  • Racism is ethnocentrism with the power to enact it.  Think back to Japanese Internment Camps or Segregation.
  • Investigate on your own:
    • How to Overcome Implicit Bias? Walk Directly Towards It. - A Ted Talk by Verna Myers (17 min)
    • I Am NOT a Label (4 min) - Race is a social construct, not a biological one.
      

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Read & take notes on Module 4.2: Attitude Formation & Change, Persuasion (pg. 468-474). Use this Social Psych Unit Study Outline to help focus your note taking - Due TOMORROW.
• Start studying for Memory Review Quiz covering Modules 2.3-2.7 - THURSDAY.

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

• ON YOUR OWN: Take notes on Modules 4.3c-d: Aggression & Attraction (pg. 496-513). You will be expected to do this on your own before test day. Use the Social Psych Unit Study Outline to guide your note taking.
  

FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: Think about a person you really like or look up to. Now think about someone you really dislike. Do you find your mood changes as you do? Do you think it would influence how you may act towards them or the types of things you'd notice about them?

LEARNING TARGETS:

• Module 4.1: Prejudice:
  • How do out-group homogeneity effect, in-group bias, and scarce resources lead to prejudicial attitudes?
  • How can enemy perceptions lead to self-fulfilling prophecies?
  • What are the major reasons behind prejudice?
  • Explain how the Blue Eye/Brown Eye Experiment demonstrates out-group homogeneity effect, in-group bias, stereotype threat, self-fullfilling prophecy, fundamental attribution error.
  • What can we do to reduce our own prejudice?

AGENDA:

• Module 4.1 : Prejudice & Discrimination (Virtual Lecture watch 36:45 - END)
• A Class Divided: Blue Eye/Brown Eye Experiment - (2:53 - 17:24) (skip 8:30-8:40 due to language) (15 minutes total)
  • If short on time: First Day: 3:57-9:55, Second Day: 10:20, Phonics Test: 12:35-13:50
    • If no Internet then use A Class Divided DVD:  Jane Elliot’s Blue-eyed vs. Brown-eyed experiment. (Start at Blue Eyes Chapter - 20 min)   Discuss this afterwards.
  • They tried to do a simulation with adults in Britain - see how it went (46 min)
  • As you watch, look for examples of...
    • Out-group homogeneity effect
    • In-group bias
    • Stereotype threat
    • Self-fullfilling prophecy
    • Fundamental attribution error
    • Confirmation Bias
      

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Study for Memory Review Quiz covering Modules 2.3-2.7 - TOMORROW.
  • Mr. Sinn Video Reviews:
    • Introduction to Memory
    • Memory & The Encoding Process
    • Types of Memories & Storing Memories
    • Retrieving Memories
    • Why Do We Forget Things?
    • Biological Bases For Memory
    • Memory Unit Review
  • Crash Course:
    • How We Make Memories
    • Remembering & Forgetting

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

• EXTRA CREDIT: (Complete the Podcast Review handout. + 1 pts)
  • Invisibilia: The Power of Categories - How categories define who we are.
  • Invisibilia: The New Norm - How Social Norms Influence us.
  • Invisibilia: Flip the Script - How to influence people? Do the opposite.
  • This American Life - In Defense of Ignorance: Ignorance for Dummies - When you're so bad you think you're good.
• ON YOUR OWN: Take notes on Modules 4.3c-d: Aggression & Attraction (pg. 496-513). You will be expected to do this on your own before test day. Use the Social Psych Unit Study Outline to guide your note taking.
  

FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: NONE - QUIZ TODAY

LEARNING TARGETS:

• Module 4.2: Cognitive Dissonance:
  • Define cognitive dissonance - how does it occur and how do we resolve it?
  • Explain Leon Festinger's Insufficient Justification Effect Experiment and what it teaches us about cognitive dissonance.

AGENDA:

• Memory Review Quiz covering Modules 2.3-2.7

• Module 4.2: Cognitive Dissonance (Virtual Lesson)
  • Think of a time you acted against your intuition or beliefs. How did you feel afterwards? What did you do to remove the guilt or uncomfortableness?
  • Mistakes Were Made...But Not By Me!
    • Quick overview of Festinger's Experiment - Telling lies for a small incentive (4 min)
      • Cognitive Dissonance & Festinger's Experiment Explained (7 min) - Watch this if you missed to class to better understand this concept!
    • Creating Extraordinary Excuses to Avoid Dissonance:
      • Why do inmates remain in prison despite DNA evidence that exonerates them with near certainty? - Cognitive Dissonance
    • Cognitive Dissonance Song! - Learn through music? Try this!
    • Flip It! Cognitive Dissonance Explained (3 min)
    • See more great examples of Cognitive Dissonance in everyday with this slideshow.
    • 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). What concept that we've learned from this unit can be used to explain this?

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Read & Take Notes on Module 4.3a Conformity & Obedience (pg. 475-485) for MONDAY.

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS:

• Read & Take Notes on Module 4.3a Obedience (pg. 478-485) for MONDAY.
• ON YOUR OWN: Take notes on Modules 4.3c-d: Aggression & Attraction (pg. 496-513). You will be expected to do this on your own before test day. Use the Social Psych Unit Study Outline to guide your note taking.
  

FOCUS/REVIEW QUESTION: What do we mean when we say Reciprocity?

An example from the Big Bang Theory (1:30)

Dwight's Owed Favor (4 min)

LEARNING TARGETS:

• How do persuasive techniques like foot in the door and door in the face work and use cognitive dissonance?

AGENDA:

• Module 4.2: Attitudes & Persuasion (Virtual Lesson)
• Persuasion Techniques & Examples (Google Classroom) - Fill this out as we discuss them in class today.
  • Foot-in-the-Door
  • Door-in-the-Face
  • Low-Ball Technique
  • Reciprocity Norm
  • That's Not All

ASSIGNMENTS:

• Read & Take Notes on Module 4.3a Conformity & Obedience (pg. 475-485) for MONDAY.
• TRY TO GET THIS DONE OVER THE WEEKEND: (DUE NEXT WEEK THURSDAY)
  • ON YOUR OWN: Take notes on Modules 4.3c-d: Aggression & Attraction (pg. 496-513). You will be expected to do this on your own before test day. Use the Social Psych Unit Study Outline to guide your note taking.

UPCOMING ASSIGNMENTS: