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Lumen: Boundless Psychology: Social Influence Unit PlanLumen: Boundless Psychology: Social Influence Unit Plan
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Lumen Learning
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9th - 10th
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Social Studies & History
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1300L
Unit Plan

Lumen: Boundless Psychology: Social Influence

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Distinguishes obedience from compliance and conformity, and looks at Stanley Milgram's obedience experiments and Philip Zimbardo's prison experiment. Factors that were found to elicit obedient behavior are listed, and the impacts these experiments had on the field of psychology and on ethics are discussed. Includes a quiz.

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Concepts

conformity, nazism

Additional Tags

compliance, obedience as social influence, research ethics, boundless: social psychology: social influence: obedience, holocaust, philip zimbardo, stanford prison experiment, stanley milgram, obedience to authority, obedience

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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