Week 13 · Readings & resources

Week 13 — Readings & Resources

Introduction to Psychology Free sample edition

Your primary reading is Chapter 13 (in this module). Everything below is the optional, go-deeper layer — pick what helps, skip the rest.

How to use this page

This page has 10 items (4 readings and 6 videos). Allow 72–86 minutes for everything. Each group points back to the matching chapter section and class-session segment, so use the full menu when you want more practice, or take the quick path below.

Every video here has captions: turn them on with the CC button in the player. The chapter covers the same ideas in text.

Pick-one quick path (19–21 min total)

① Why do we judge others so harshly? Attributions and attitudes

Chapter 13, Section “Explain a behavior: attributions and their two biases” · Session 1, Segment 1, “Attributions and their two biases” · Remember: when someone else slips, ask what situation might explain it before you blame their character.

Social Thinking: Crash Course Psychology #37 — CrashCourse — a fast tour of attributions, the fundamental attribution error, the two routes to persuasion, the foot-in-the-door phenomenon, and cognitive dissonance; it also describes a prison simulation study this course does not cover, so treat that part as extra. (video, 11 min) (captions: creator)
Situation, Disposition, & The Fundamental Attribution Error (Intro Psych Tutorial #196) — PsychExamReview — a calm, step-by-step tutorial on situational versus dispositional explanations and why we lean on character when we explain other people. (video, 10 min) (captions: creator)
Fundamental Attribution Error — Ethics Unwrapped — a short, plain-language definition with an everyday driving example; read it, then try explaining the driver who cut you off two ways while working through the Week-13 module overview. (reading, 3–5 min)

② Why do ordinary people go along and obey? Conformity and obedience

Chapter 13, Section “Follow an order: Milgram and the power of the situation” · Session 1, Segment 4, “Obedience and the power of the situation” · Remember: the same kind of ordinary people obeyed far less when the situation changed.

Social Influence: Crash Course Psychology #38 — CrashCourse — Milgram's obedience studies, Asch's line judgments, and the group effects from loafing to groupthink in one episode; where a percentage differs from the chapter, keep the chapter's figure. (video, 10 min) (captions: creator)
Obedience to Authority | Concepts Unwrapped — Ethics Unwrapped — a short explainer from a business-ethics video series on why people follow orders from a boss even when the order conflicts with their own judgment. (video, 6 min) (captions: creator)
Replicating Milgram — Association for Psychological Science — how a later researcher ran a careful, partial version of the obedience study under today's safeguards, such as screening, a clear right to withdraw, and immediate debriefing. This builds on Week 2's work with research ethics and informed consent. (reading, 10–15 min)

③ Why don't crowds always help, and how do groups decide? Bystanders and groupthink

Chapter 13, Section “Ask who helps: the bystander effect and the design behind it” · Session 2, Segment 6, “The bystander effect” · Remember: the more people who could help, the less responsible each one feels, so name one person when you need help.

The Bystander Effect (Intro Psych Tutorial #204) — PsychExamReview — a tutorial on why people are less likely to help when others are present, with diffusion of responsibility at the center. (video, 8 min) (captions: creator)
If You're in Danger, Will Bystanders Help? — Greater Good Magazine — the Greater Good Science Center's article on research into real public conflicts caught on camera that complicates the classic picture; read it to see how each person's lower odds of helping can sit beside a high chance that someone in a crowd steps in. (reading, 10–15 min)
Groupthink | Ethics Defined — Ethics Unwrapped — a two-minute definition of groupthink, the close group whose wish for agreement buries the doubts that should have been spoken. (video, 2 min) (captions: creator)

Optional one-stop reference (free online reference)

What Regulations Protect Research Participants? — Office for Human Research Protections — the federal office that oversees the rules protecting research volunteers explains review by an institutional review board (IRB) and informed consent; set it beside this week's account of Milgram, which adds the rules on deception and debriefing that this page does not cover. (reading, 2–4 min)

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