Lesson Content and Activities

AP Psychology 11th-12th Grade Social Psychology 4-5 August 30th-31st

1. Objectives Materials Describe the structure and function of different kinds of group behavior (e.g., 1. Print out bystander deindividuation, group polarization). situations for butcher paper Predict the impact of the presence of others on individual behavior (e.g., bystander effect, social facilitation). 2. Butcher paper for bystander situations 2. Lesson Content and Activities Day 4: 1. Finish blaming the victim discussion- have students do a mini philosophical chair. Who thinks it was the fault of the spouse? Who thinks it was the highwayman? WICOR or other 2. Students come up with and act out a skit to demonstrate one of the concepts from the previous class. strategies used in 3. As a part of debriefing after the skits, discuss the terminology of group processes. Were there any social loafers? Were there some people who fell victim to social the lesson inhibition? o Cornell Notes

o Group work Day 5: 1. Students watch or read the following: o Student technology use http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2010/08/25/vo.katrina.looting.chaos.cnn

Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Kitty_Genovese (also have discussion about how best to use Wikipedia)

SNL deindividuation video (congressman Joe Wilson shouts “you lie” at Obama State of the Union address) http://www.hulu.com/watch/96393

See also: NPR story (Genovese’s girlfriend 40 years later http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html? action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=1763547&m=1764559)

Rihanna/Chris Brown http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=DjV8PWdZYR0&feature=related (end of the video is best example of this)

2. Lesson on bystander effect, deindividuation, group think, group polarization

3. Evaluation of the Lesson

Social Psychology 4-5