1. The social approach
What do 3 – 4 of the social studies have in common?

2. What key words from below would you use?
What are the assumptions of the social approach: You can use some of these keywords
What key words from below would you use?
G.W. Allport is commonly quoted when defining what the social area of psychology encompasses. He defines it as ‘the scientific investigation of how the thoughts, feelings and behaviours of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined or implied presence of others’.
To further understand this area it is important students acknowledge that, whilst we can observe the actions individuals take due to social causes, to understand the social theories underlying behaviour we must analyse the social processes behind the resulting behaviour carefully. This area assumes that our behaviour is determined by the social environment and the roles we have in different situations; this influences us even when we are alone and affects how we relate others around us along with our intentions for future behaviours .
Environment, situational factors, group dynamics, conformity, situational factors, social context, obedience, prejudice, peers.

3. Strength
Weakness
High in ecological validity
Useful
Ethics
Often not generalisable
One strength of the social approach is it is often high in ecological validity…….For example…….This is a strength because……
A weakness if that the social approach is often not ethical……Forexample……This is a weakness because….

4. Is this man evil? What caused this evil?
Otto Adolf Eichmann ( 19 March 1906 – 1 June 1962) was a German (lieutenant colonel) and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust. Eichmann was tasked by (general/lieutenant general) Reinhard Heydrich with facilitating and managing the logistics involved in the mass deportation of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in German-occupied Eastern Europe during World War II. Eichmann collected information for Heydrich, attended the conference, and prepared the minutes. Eichmann and his staff became responsible for Jewish deportations to extermination camps, where the victims were gassed. After Germany invaded Hungary in March 1944, Eichmann oversaw the deportation of much of that country's Jewish population. Most of the victims were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp, where 75 to 90 per cent were murdered upon arrival. By the time the transports were stopped in July 1944, 437,000 of Hungary's 725,000 Jews had been killed. Historian Richard J. Evans estimates that between 5.5 and 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis. Eichmann said towards the end of the war that he would "leap laughing into the grave because the feeling that he had five million people on his conscience would be for him a source of extraordinary satisfaction."[1] In 1960, Eichmann was captured in Argentina by the Mossad, Israel's intelligence service. Following a widely publicised trial in Israel, he was found guilty of war crimes and hanged in 1962.
What caused this evil?

5. Debate: Is Eichmann evil?
Name
Situational
Individual

6. How to stop dictatorships?
People are more likely to obey even when in conflict with their own morals when…
How?
To not allow even small increments of discrimination / violence
They are asked to obey in small increments
they are not physically close to victim
A prestigious organisation has sanctioned the act
When they do not see anyone else dissent
When they think the victim has agreed

7. How can we stop unwanted sexual behaviour on public transport?
Read the article
Note factors that cause the bystander effect
Note factors that reduce the bystander effect
Evaluate the SAAM advice
Evaluate the Green Dot advice
What would a cognitive psychologist do?
What would a social psychologist do?
Come up with your idea and justify it
Data head!
What are the facts?
What psychology backs up the ideas under discussion?
Creative
New ideas, new possibilities
Optimistic
Explore the values and benefits
Devil's advocate
Spot the difficulties and dangers; where things might
go wrong.