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SSPSP1Social Environment and Behavior

Analyze the impact of the social environment on behaviors, and attitudes.

Appears in: Social Studies, High School

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Expectations

  • SSPSP1.a

    Explain phenomena that result from the influence of the social environment on the individual and vice versa: include obedience, social facilitation, social loafing, bystander apathy, conformity such as Asch's experiment, groupthink, group polarization, and deindividuation.

  • SSPSP1.b

    Analyze attribution and cognitive dissonance theories pertaining to social judgments and attitudes.

  • SSPSP1.c

    Explain the factors that contribute to affiliation and attraction, include: proximity, mere-exposure effect, and similarity.

  • SSPSP1.d

    Analyze and evaluate the ethics of experimentation in social psychology, include: Milgram's experiment of obedience and Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experiment.

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Source: Georgia Standards of Excellence, published by the Georgia Department of Education at case.georgiastandards.org.