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• You have 5 minutes to prepare for FRQ Practice

• Review Social Psychology Notes• Take out a blank sheet of paper and write your

name date and block in the upper right hand corner

FRQ Practice

• Carlos is the leading scorer on his high school basketball team. On the morning of a big game, Carlos complains of a sore knee. Explain how each of the following factors may affect Carlos.– self-fulfilling prophecy– self-handicapping– social loafing– social facilitation

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Consider a group that you belong to…1. What positive or negative stereotypes do

others have of your group?2. Do all members of your group fit the

stereotype? Why or why not?

Social Psychology

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Objective 13: What are the components of prejudice?

• Prejudice: an unjustifiable (usually negative) attitude toward a group or its members– involves stereotyped

beliefs

• Discrimination: an unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group or its members

Explain the Social, Emotional, and Cognitive Roots of Prejudice

• In group & Out group• Scapegoat theory• Schemas• Just World Phenomenon

Just World Phenomenon

• Reverse Scores: 1, 4, 5, 8, 10, 13, 16, 17, 20– 0 to 5– 1 to 4– 2 to 3– 3 to 2– 4 to 1– 5 to 0

Add scores for all items. Totals range from 0 to 100

Aggressiveness Questionnaire

• Aggression is any physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt or destroy– Is aggression instinctual?– What are the physiological and psychological

causes of aggression?– Do we learn aggression?– What effect does mass media violence have on

the viewer?

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1. Make a chart with two columns – one labeled “Appropriate Aggression” the other labeled “Inappropriate Aggression”

2. Brainstorm two lists about what aggression society deems as appropriate and what behavior is inappropriate

Process p.42

• Make a chart with two columns – one labeled “Appropriate Aggression” the other labeled “Inappropriate Aggression”– Which list is longer?– Is there a gender difference in the perception of

appropriate aggression?– Do students from different cultural backgrounds

have different ideas about what is appropriate?