A combination of poorly children and a broken mains stop tap (resulting in no water in my house) is keeping me at home today. We are in something of a race against time to finish Social Influence by the end of term next week - so do this work!
Read the 'Obedience to Authority' section in your textbook - p.202-214 if you haven't already, and add to your notes on obedience research. We have covered Milgram, field studies including Hofling and Bickman, ethical issues and the questions of internal and external validity in the past few lessons. Pay particular attention to the 'authoritarian personality' as an alternative explanation for obedience to the situational factors (legitimate authority, agentic state, gradual commitment) which Miglram proposed.
Answer summary questions 13, 14 and 15 on p.214
Read about explanations of independent behaviour (i.e. not conforming or obeying, but doing what you feel to be right) on p.216-218 and make notes on Gamson et al (1982). This obedience study resulted in fairly consistent disobedience - what makes it so different from the Milgram, Bickman and Hofling studies?
There's an assignment on Edmodo - five short answer questions which should only take 10 minutes to do once you've done the reading. Have a go at 'turning in' this. If you've not yet signed up, you might not see it when you do, so here are the questions.
Try to get all this done this afternoon / this evening - it will make tomorrow's lesson more useful.
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