Before Reading
1. Which does social psychology emphasize: nature or nurture? Explain.
2. According to Freud, what is the most critical time period in a person's life? (i.e., When does a person's environment affect one's development the most?)
3. Have you ever given into social pressure or seen someone else give in to social pressure? (i.e., A person does something because everyone else is doing it.)
4. What is the difference among authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive parenting styles?
5. Describe the ethics involved in experimental research.
During Reading
1. Summarize the Stanford prison experiment. Do you think this experiment was ethical?
2. Discuss two of your social roles. How do social norms influence your behavior in these roles?
3. Describe Asch's experiment. Connect the findings of his experiment to the concept of conformity.
4. What major factors produce conformity? Have you seen these factors at work in your own personal life?
5. What is groupthink?
6. Describe Milgram's obedience experiment. Do you think it would be possible to replicate this experiment in the present day?
7. What conditions promote obedience?
8. Describe how the case of Kitty Genovese demonstrates the bystander effect/diffusion of responsibility.
9. What conditions promote bystander intervention?
After Reading
1. Which social psychology experiment that you read about in this chapter is the most telling (or surprising, insightful, interesting) to you? Why?
2. What is the difference between groupthink and diffusion of responsibility?
3. What is conformity?
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