Crash Course Psychology #19: Monkeys and Morality

Pair Crash Course Psychology Episode 19 with fifteen questions on attachment, parenting and moral development. Students compare ideas from the episode and consider Kohlberg’s framework through the Heinz Dilemma.
Grades
Grades 9–12
Pages
4
File type
Multiple File Types
Answer key
Included

Updated Feb 21, 2024

Subject
Social Studies, Psychology
Topic
Attachment, Harlow experiments
Resource types
Worksheets, Activities
Answer key
Included
Standards
L.9.6

Product description

From the author

Crash Course Psychology Video Worksheet: Monkeys and Morality provides educators with a 2-page digital worksheet to supplement Crash Course's popular Psychology video on monkeys and morality. Students will answer 15 critical thinking questions that analyze concepts from the video including Harlow's monkey experiments, attachment styles, parenting models, and Kohlberg's theory of moral development across the preconventional, conventional and postconventional levels. This informative worksheet explores the video in depth, enabling students to better understand the psychological concepts presented. It can be easily implemented as in-class work, group work, homework, or online assignments. The zip file includes a student worksheet and answer key for teacher reference.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Explain what Harlow's experiment and the "strange situation" experiment reveal about attachment.

  • Describe the three major parenting styles and summarize the episode’s comparison of them.

  • Outline Kohlberg's three levels of moral development and the purpose of the Heinz Dilemma.

Teaching tips

  • Play the linked Crash Course Psychology episode before assigning the worksheet, after checking access to the linked video.

  • Use the included teacher answer key to check written responses, and decide how much detail to require for each response.

  • Assign the Word version if you want to adapt question wording, or the PDF version for a ready-to-print copy.

Skills covered

  • Video-based note-taking — students answer 15 short-answer questions tied to specific claims made across the episode.

  • Summarizing psychological research — students explain Harlow's attachment experiment and the "strange situation" experiment in their own words.

  • Applying moral-development theory — students describe Kohlberg's three levels of moral development and the Heinz Dilemma's role in his theory.

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Which topics does the worksheet connect?

The questions move through Harlow’s attachment research, the strange situation procedure, parenting styles and Kohlberg’s levels of moral development, including the Heinz Dilemma. Matching Word and PDF student sheets and teacher keys are supplied.

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

  • L.9.6

Core concepts

  • Attachment theory

  • Parenting styles

  • Moral development

  • Kohlberg

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