---
title: "SSPSP1: Social Environment and Behavior (Georgia Social Studies standard)"
code: SSPSP1
cite_as: Georgia Standards of Excellence, Social Studies, SSPSP1
subject: social_studies
grades:
  - high-school
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# SSPSP1: Social Environment and Behavior

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

- Subject: Social Studies
- Appears in: High School, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/social_studies/high-school.md

## 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.

## Georgia Milestones coverage

No Georgia Milestones blueprint cites this standard.

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