Gender Roles

Debate Plan:

http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/in-classdebatesarticle.htm

Freud Id Ego Superego

http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/superego-seuss-800.html

Lesson using The Cat in the Hat

Sweet Links to Studies

Summaries of Major Psychological Studies

http://lukeprog.com/science/studies_that_changed_psychology.html

More Studies

http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/02/top-ten-psychology-studies.php

Group Behaviour

? Think of groups to which you belong - your family, your friends, the band, a sports team, and so.

What effect do these groups have on how you think, act and feel?  Pick one group to which you belong and describe any influences this group has over you.  (group behaviour question!)

What are groups?

How are Groups held together?

Types of Groups

Social Facilitation vs Social Inhibition

Interactions within Groups

Conformity and Obedience

Group Pressure to Conform

Obedience to Authority

          Milgram Experiment

           Zimbardo Experiment

Conflict and Cooperation

Aggression

Group conflict vs group cooperation

          Gangs

Altruism

Individual Interactions

(But I also need to do some sessions on Freud)

Attribution Theory

http://www.sparknotes.com/psychology/psych101/socialpsychology/section3.rhtml

Non-verbal communication

Parent-child relationships

      Erik Erikson

       "If a young infant's first relationship with a caregiver is loving, responsive, and consistent, the child will develop a trust in the ability of other people to eet his or her needs."

       "However, a child how has experience unresponsive, inconsistent, or unaffectionate care in infancy will most likely be more wary of mistrustful of other people."

Watch ABC study.

? What factors are important in people's deciding whether or not to help ?

? Think of groups to which you belong - your family, your friends, the band, a sports team, and so.

What effect do these groups have on how you think, act and feel?  Pick one group to which you belong and describe any influences this group has over you.  (group behaviour question!)

Love and Marriage


The idea of love without marriage is no longer shocking.

A couple developing a close and intimate relationship or even living together does not necessarily mean they are considering marriage.

The idea of marriage without love remains unpopular to most Canadians.

Marrying for convenience, companionship, financial security, or any reason that does not include love strikes most of us as impossible or at least unfortunate.

Exaggerated ideas about love may also help to explain the growing frequencies of divorce.

Love 

Passionate Love - Intense, sensual and all consuming.  It has a feeling of great excitement and of intense sexuality.  There also seems to be an element of danger that it may go away at any moment.

Compassionate Love - Includes friendship, liking someone, mutual trusting and wanting to be with them.  This love is a more stable love which includes commitment and intimacy.

Marriage


Couple decides to make a formal and public commitment to each other.

Will they live 'happily ever after?'

Their chances are good if they come from similar cultural and economic backgrouds, same education and practice (or fail to) the same religion.

Better still if their parents are happily married, they had happy childhoods and they maintain good relations with their families.

Marital Problems and Divorce


Healthy adjustments to marriage seems to depend on three factors:
- Whether the couples needs are compatible
- Whether the husband and wife's images of themselves coincide with their images of each other.
- Whether they agree on the husband and wife's roles in the marriage.

External factors may make it impossible for one or both to live up to role expectations.

A man who is unemployed cannot be the good provider he wants to be and may take out his frustrations on his family.

A woman trying to hold a job and raise a family in a slum tenement may have trouble keeping clean the kitchen with a broken sink, providing good meals for her family, or keeping her children safe.

Debate


Each team must prepare strategies to debate the following question:

What is the ideal relationship to which people should aspire - passionate love or compassionate love?


Each team will not be informed of the position they will argue until the day of the debate, therefore, prepare arguments both for and against each kind of love relationship.

On debate day, a coin toss will determine which position each team will take.

NOTE: ALL OF THE ABOVE IS IN A POWERPOINT 'LOVE AND MARRIAGE'
                        

Average Salary Related to Degree

http://www.earnmydegree.com/online-education/learning-center/education-value.html

This seems like a fairly convincing chart.

Aggression, the Self, Relationships, Conformity

I almost think this site should be the source of my course outline next year.

http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/examples.htm

Good Will Hunting

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/422573/cognition_in_good_will_hunting.html?cat=72

Begin with an introduction to 'Cognitive Dissonance' and Aesop's story of 'Sour Grapes'.

Cognitive Dissonance with examples: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance

THE GRAPES ARE SOUR

Once upon a time, a hungry fox was roaming around here and there searching for food. Because of hunger, he was feeling weak and tired. Fortunately, he came to a garden where he saw a grape-vine laden with bunches of grapes they looked quite ripe and juicy.

The fox looked at the grapes with longing eyes and licked his chops. But the bunches were too high for him and he was feeling weak. So he sat down for a while to take some rest. On feeling refreshed, he jumped as high as he could, to get at the grapes. But he failed to reach them.

Then he again rested for some time and made another bold attempt, but was unlucky for the second time.

Forced to give up trying anymore, he just walked away and instead of accepting his failure, he remarked �the grapes appeared to be ripe and juicy, but now I see them to be quite sour.�

This story, thus, proves that, people generally hate what they can�t get.


Article about cognition in Good Will Hunting


http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/422573/cognition_in_good_will_hunting.html?cat=72


List of older Social Psych, black and white related video


http://www.qualityinformationpublishers.com/teensocialpsychologyandtroubledyouthfilmsdvd1951-1962.aspx


Social Psychology and Film (University Course Syllabus)


http://www1.psych.purdue.edu/~willia55/392F/index.htm


See handout.  It is a little bit annoying that the language in this film is going to result in backlash.  Argh.  This probably means not using this movie next year.

Project:

500 Word Essay

a)    Linear Outline

Possible Topics to discuss:

Cognitive Dissonance in Good Will Hunting

Empathy

Fear as a motivating factor

Psychotherapy

Currere

Effects of childhood on adulthood

Social Psychology and Film

http://www1.psych.purdue.edu/~willia55/392F/index.htm

http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/technology.htm

Social Psychology November - December

Use pp 516 - 600 as a guideline in the yellow psych book.  Consider:

a) Individual Interactions
- Interpersonal Attraction
- Social Perception
- Personal Relationships

b) Group Interactions
- Group behaviour
- Conformity and Obedience
- Conflict and Cooperation

c) Attitudes and Social Influence
- Attitude Formation
- Attitude Change and Prejudice
- Persuasion

Unit List

I just need to figure out how to open the files:

http://college.cengage.com/psychology/brehm/social_psychology/4e/students/netlabs.html

(Files in above do not work - but good information is available here:

http://college.cengage.com/psychology/brehm/social_psychology/6e/instructors/mmresources/ch04.html)

Perception

http://www.pppst.com/psychology.html

Series of powerpoints useless as presentations but containing helpful information/examples

Textbook:  p78   and    p105-115  (115 #1,2,3)

Define the following terms:

Sensation:

Perception:

Threshold:

Difference Threshold:

Sensory Adaptation:

Signal-Detection Theory:

Gestalt:

Constancy:

Illusions:

Figure-Ground Perception:

What are the Gestalt Principles?
(Good explanation of hte Gestalt Principles)
http://graphicdesign.spokanefalls.edu/tutorials/process/gestaltprinciples/gestaltprinc.htm

Canadian artist who paints illusions:
www.robgonsalves.com/ArtistGallery.asp?artist_id=23&category_id=2