Name: Crash Course Psychology #38: Social Influence
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A companion worksheet for Crash Course Psychology's episode on social influence asks students fifteen questions as they watch the linked video. Early questions walk through Stanley Milgram's obedience experiment — how participants were recruited, what they were told to do, and which conditions raised or lowered obedience — followed by Solomon Asch's line-comparison study of conformity. Later questions define social facilitation, social loafing, deindividuation, group polarization, and groupthink, closing with a question on why both individual and group factors matter in decision-making. A separate teacher answer key gives a full model answer for every question, provided as both an editable Word document and a PDF.

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Crash Course Psychology Social Influence Worksheet analyzes concepts from episode 38 of the popular Crash Course Psychology video series. This supplemental resource walks students through Milgram's obedience experiment, Asch's conformity experiment, and other key social psychology concepts.\n\nThe informative worksheet poses 15 critical thinking questions to students about social influence, cultural expectations, normative social influence, social facilitation, social loafing, deindividuation, group polarization, and groupthink. An answer key is included so educators can easily check student responses.\n\nThis digital resource works well for whole class instruction, small group learning, independent practice, homework, substitute plans, and more. The materials integrate smoothly into Google Classroom and other online learning platforms. Ultimately, Crash Course Psychology Social Influence Worksheet serves as an engaging teaching tool to reinforce key video content.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Students can explain the purpose and key findings of Milgram's obedience experiment, including the conditions that raised or lowered obedience.
Students can describe Asch's conformity experiment and explain why participants sometimes gave a wrong answer to match the group.
Students can define and distinguish social-influence concepts including social facilitation, social loafing, deindividuation, group polarization, and groupthink.

Teaching tips

Assign the questions as a during-viewing guide, since the worksheet instructs students to use the linked video to answer each item.
Use the editable Word version if you want to adjust question wording or convert some items to multiple choice before printing.
Save the groupthink and group-polarization questions for a follow-up discussion, since the answer key connects them to larger real-world group decisions.

Skills covered

Video-based note-taking — extracting specific facts, such as the recruitment method and researcher prods, while watching an educational video.
Psychological concept application — defining terms like deindividuation and groupthink and connecting them to the experiments described in the video.
Comparative analysis — distinguishing conformity (Asch) from obedience (Milgram) as related but different social-influence processes.

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Questions teachers ask about this resource

Which two classic psychology experiments does the worksheet focus on?

Stanley Milgram's obedience-to-authority experiment and Solomon Asch's line-comparison conformity study, covered in the first seven questions.

What social-influence concepts does the worksheet cover beyond the two named experiments?

Five more: social facilitation, social loafing, deindividuation, group polarization, and groupthink, each defined in its own question.

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Core concepts

obedience
conformity
social facilitation
groupthink

Topics

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