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History, Civics & Social Studies · Grade 11

Development and Social Context

How do people develop, and how do other people shape what we do? Learners compare Piaget's stage theory and its critiques with Vygotsky's social view of learning, examine attachment research (Harlow's monkey studies and their ethics, Ainsworth's Strange Situation) and Erikson's psychosocial stages, then study social influence: Asch's conformity experiments, variations of Milgram's obedience studies, and the bystander effect, including how the story of Kitty Genovese was later corrected. They close by asking how culture and 'WEIRD' samples limit what psychology knows. The course describes research; it does not classify learners.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 140 minutes
  • Development and social context check: 9 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, highlight a text, match pairs, type a number, put in order and sort into groups
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What learners will discover

  • Compare Piaget's and Vygotsky's views of cognitive development, including critiques.
  • Explain key findings and ethical issues in attachment research and describe Erikson's psychosocial view of adolescence.
  • Analyze conformity and obedience research, including situational factors that change behavior.
  • Explain the bystander effect, evaluate how a famous case was misreported, and assess the limits of samples drawn from one culture.

Lessons

  1. Piaget and Vygotsky 4 steps3 practiceabout 34 min
  2. Attachment and identity 4 steps3 practiceabout 34 min
  3. Conformity and obedience 4 steps3 practiceabout 35 min
  4. Bystanders, a corrected story, and culture 5 steps4 practiceabout 37 min
  5. Development and social context check 9 questions at the end

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