Lesson 2 Social Psychology

Key Words Preview/Action

• devised (devise 7)
• legitimate (legitimacy 6) legit
• inundated (inundating 1)
• anguish (anguishing 3)
• induced (induce 8)
• frailty (frail 4)
• atrocities (atrocious 5)
• docility (2) docile

Ket Concepts

• hoax (Ishiguro)
• authority
• the Holocaust
• standards of morality
• war crimes
• ethnic cleansing (awful word - ethnic killing is better!

Getting Details

• 70 years
• Nazi leader Adolf Hitler
• reward and punishment
• learner / supervisor
• heart condition / silent
• Australian psychologist / laboratory coats / bullied

Put a check [X] next to the sentences that can reasonably be inferred from the information in the reading.

Understanding Ideas

• (1) It CANNOT be inferred that Adolf Eichmann was "just following orders." In line 12 it says he was the 'mastermind.' This means he was in charge and implies clearly that he was not ordered to do these things.

Understanding Ideas

• (2) It CANNOT be inferred that Milligram attended Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem. In line 14 it only says the trial "aroused his interest."

Understanding Ideas

• (3) It CANNOT be inferred that all of the volunteers were from Yale University. In line 19 it just says that they were recruited.

Understanding Ideas

• (4) It CANNOT be inferred that Milligram wanted to improve eduction and learning. In line 23 its says he "just wanted to see how well or how badly the volunteers would behave."

Understanding Ideas

• (5) It CANNOT that the words on the list were long and difficult. Nothing in the text says this.

Understanding Ideas

• (6) It CAN be inferred that the the white lad coats made them look more official. It says in line 35 that the coat was worn by the person who would represent the "experiment's legitimate authority."

Understanding Ideas

• (7) It CANNOT be inferred that the the white lad coats made them look more official. It says in line 35 that the coat was worn by the person who would represent the "experiment's legitimate authority."

Understanding Ideas

• (8) It CANNOT be inferred that Milgram's book was totally reliable. The text just says in line44 that it was a best-seller.

Understanding Ideas

• (9) It CANNOT be inferred the subjects hated Milgram. There is nothing in the text that says this.

Understanding Ideas

• (10) It CANNOT be that the college textbook Psychology and Life was popular. The text never says this..

Making Connections (ex.)

• 1. difficult questions about human behavior
• 2. would behave when put in a situation roughly similar to that of the Germans
• 3. they were appalled by what they were being asked to do OR they didn't want to cause the learners pain or suffering

Making Connections (ex.)

• 4. they don't have the resources they need to do so.
• 5. follow the experiment's instructions (do as they were told to do.)
• 6. evil people who commit bad acts and that "good" people would never do such terrible things.

ParagraphConstruction
"Several other Nazi leaders were on trial, too."

3-1-5-2-4

Words in Context

• A
• D
• B
• B
• D

Key Words in Action

• inundating
• docility
• anguishing
• frail
• atrocious
• legitimacy
• devise
• induce

Listen and Write

• feature film about the life and work of the Yale social psychologist Stanley Milgram.
• Migram's 1961 Yale electric shock experiments on obedience and authority.
• plenty of time to what happened in the experiments' aftermath.
• appalled and depressed by what his research revealed to him.
• evil that had induced Nazi officials to carry out the killing of millions of Jews.

Making Conversation

• ethnic cleansing
• authority
• war crimes
• standards of morality
• the Holocaust
• hoax

Listen and Write

• 1. feature film about the life and work of the Yale social psychologist Stanley Milgram.

Listen and Write

• 2. Migram'S 1961 Yale electric shock experiments on obedience and authority.

Listen and Write

• 3. plenty of time to what happened in the experiments' aftermath.

Listen and Write

• 4. appalled and depressed by what his research revealed to him.

Listen and Write

• 5. evil that had induced Nazi officials to carry out the killing of millions of Jews.

Watch

• Stanley Milgram Experiment film