A-Level psychology [edexcel] - Obedience, Milgram baseline study

This is an A-Level psychology lesson which focuses on Milgram’s obedience experiment. The lesson is designed to last 90 minutes and there are a total of 15 slides on the power point. There are a few documents which are not attached as these were not created by me. If you would like these, please email me at amyfo7@live.co.uk and I can send you over scanned copies.

Included:

• Starter, methods recap on primary and secondary data.
• Recap of the social psychology approach. Encouraging student to think about how social psychologists would explain certain behaviours.
• Title page- encouraging students to think about what is meant by the term obedience.
• Recap of homework which students were/ could be set. This goes over a wider reading article about Milgram. Please email me if you would like this, article is not attached.
• Background information on Milgram.
• Video of some of the original footage, questions for students to think about. Video link attached on the power point.
• Explanation of Milgram’s experiment in a nutshell.
• Milgram reading task. The reading has been taken from the A-level edexcel textbook- please email me if you would like the scanned copy of this reading.
• Milgram fill in the blanks. Answers and student copy of the worksheet has been attached.
• Introduction and explanation of blind obedience.
• Introduction to ethical issues in methods. Encouraging students to link the ethical guidelines to Milgram’s research.
• Overview of the strengths and weaknesses of Milgram’s research.
• Strengths and weaknesses reading task. Short answer exam questions for students to complete- these are included on the power point. Textbook reading has been taken from the edexcel textbook (with the eye image on the front). This has not been attached but I can send over if you drop me an email.
• Other examples of Milgram- Derren brown video clip. Link included on the power point slide. Questions for students to think about on the slide.
• Homework- Milgram’s variations. Students to complete a flipped learning task where they learn about the variation experiment’s themselves. This lesson can be purchased on my shop separately. Alternatively, the homework slide can be removed if not needed.