SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY UNIT
MONDAY
January 6
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9
10
Social – Attitudes &
Attributions
Social – Conformity
& Obedience
Social – Group
Behavior
Social – Aggression
Social –Prejudice
HW: Read &
notes p.650-657
(Conformity &
Obedience)
HW: Read &
notes p.685-687
(Altruism)
HW: Read &
notes p.678-685
(Attraction)
HW: Read &
notes p.655-692
(Conflict &
Peacemaking)
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AP Exam
Discussion &
Review
TUESDAY
FINALS –
Periods 1, 2, 4
WEDNESDAY
FINALS –
Periods 3, 5, 6
THURSDAY
FINALS –
Periods 7, 8
FRIDAY
RELAX!!!!!!!!!!
HW: Study for
Finals!
Attitudes & Actions (p.646-650): Explain the relationship between attitudes and behaviors.
*Three Components of Attitudes:
Elaboration likelihood model  Central route to persuasion:
Peripheral route to persuasion:
Many streams of evidence confirm that attitudes follow behavior!
Foot-in-the-Door Phenomenon:
Door-in-the-Face:
How did Zimbardo’s prison study demonstrate that role-playing affects attitudes?
Cognitive Dissonance Theory:
Attributing Behavior (p.644-645): List and describe attribution judgments and biases.
*Social Schemas:
Dispositional (Internal) Attribution:
Situational (External) Attribution:
Fundamental Attribution Error:
Self-serving bias:
HW: Social Influence: Conformity & Obedience (p.650-657): Explain the concepts of obedience &
conformity through the research of Asch & Milgram.
Chameleon effect:
Solomon Asch’s Line Study (design, results):
Conditions that Strengthen Conformity 
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7)
Reasons for Conforming 
Normative Social Influence:
Information Social Influence:
Obedience  Stanley Milgram’s experiment (design, results):
Obedience was highest when….1)
2)
3)
4)
HW: Altruism (p.685-687): Trace the development of pro-social behaviors.
Altruism:
Bystander effect (diffusion of responsibility):
Best odds of helping someone occur when….
Norms for helping  Social exchange theory:
Reciprocity norm:
Social-responsibility norm:
Social Influence: Group Behavior (p.657-664): Discuss how group interaction can facilitate group
polarization and groupthink.
Social facilitation:
Social loafing:
Deindividuation:
Group polarization:
Groupthink:
*Factors the increase likelihood of groupthink 
Interaction between social control & personal control 
Minority influence:
HW: Attraction (p.678-685): Assess the different theories of attraction and love.
Proximity  Mere exposure effect:
Physical Attractiveness 
Similarity 
Reward theory of attraction:
Hatfield’s “passionate love” v. “companionate love” 
Equity 
Self-disclosure 
Social Relations: Aggression (p.670-677): Discuss the issues and factors related to aggression.
Biology of Aggression
Genetic Influences 
Neural Influences 
Biochemical Influences 
Psychological & Social-Cultural Factors in Aggression
Aversive Events  Frustration-aggression principle:
Social & cultural influences 
Observing models of aggression 
Acquiring social scripts 
Do video games teach, or release, violence?
HW: Conflict & Peacemaking (p.688-692): Trace the development & resolution of group conflict.
Social traps:
Enemy perceptions  Mirror-image perceptions:
Self-fulfilling prophecies:
Reducing Conflict: Contact 
Cooperation  Superordinate goals:
Communication 
Conciliation  GRIT:
Social Relations: Prejudice (p.664-670): Describe the factors that contribute to cultural, ethnic, and
gender prejudice & discrimination.
Prejudice v. stereotypes v. discrimination 
Social Roots of Prejudice  Social inequities 
Ingroup bias:
Emotional Roots of Prejudice  Scapegoat theory:
Cognitive Roots of Prejudice  Outgroup homogeneity:
Other-race effect (own-race bias):
Just World Phenomenon: