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Aim: Why do we act the way we do? (pt.1)
January 6, 2014 Spark: What is one trend you have been
a part of? Why do you think trends happen?
Reminders
Welcome Back! Again.
Two weeks from tomorrow, you will be taking your final for this course.
Turn in all missing work this week. I will NOT accept missing work turned in at the last minute.
Agenda
Trends and Conformity
Authority and Obedience Psychology
Protecting and Empowering yourself
Exit Slip
Review
a b c
Social Psychology
Humans and other primates are social animals
Survival and success is dependent upon interacting with others
Humans = Social Animals
Humans evolved to interact with others
People often want to belong to part of a group
IndividualityWithin groups, people want to be recognized as individuals
To stand out, people start doing something (fashion, behavior, style)
TrendsIf individuals start doing something, it can spread rapidly within a group.
Trends come and go
Once a trend is “popular” it no longer makes you an individual
Trends must be refreshed
ConformityAs individuals spread their trends, others in the group adopt that trait
People are influenced by others, sometimes you want to stand out, sometimes you don’t
Authority and Obedience Psychology
- Milgram and Stanford Prison Experiments
Obedience Psychology
Being able to blame somebody else lessens personal responsibility
Sharing responsibility makes people more likely to do something wrong
How good people turn bad
Certain contexts encourage bad behavior
If others encourage bad behavior, people are more likely to do it
Self - Serving BiasSelf -serving bias
Failure is due to others, events, world around us
Success is due to us
Important for maintaining Self - esteem
Depression can reverse this
Just World Hypothesis
Blaming victims for something that happened to them
Bad things happen to those that deserve it
Just World Hypothesis
- Homeless because they’re lazy
- Raped because “they were asking for it”
- If you live in areas that get hurricanes, it’s your fault if you’re hurt in a hurricane
Are there any other situations that you
can think of for just world hypothesis?
Locus of ControlWhat you can control
External - outcome determined by world, not by what you do
Internal - outcome determined by you
What type of locus of control do you
usually have?
Exit Slip In your notebooks, answer the following:
1. Why do people conform?
2. Why do people follow authority figures?
3. What is self-serving bias?
4. Write out an example of the just world hypothesis.
5. What is the difference between external and internal locus of control?
Review