10/26/12Learning Objective: To learn how to

analyze To Kill a Mockingbird through a psychological lens.

Warm-Up–Write about a time when you acted differently ( poorly perhaps) when you were in a groupWrite about a time when you avoided action when you know you should have done something. TKAM Character Analysis•Please pick up the readings in the front of the room on mob mentality and the Bystander Effect. Read both articles, then define these two concepts, in your own words, in your warm-up journal.

Agenda:TKAM Mob Mentality/Bystander Effect Response and Discussion

What Would You Do?

Mob Mentality• When people are part of a group, they

often experience deindividuation, or a loss of self-awareness. In other words, they conform to group influence.

• When people deindividuate, they are less likely to follow normal restraints and inhibitions and more likely to lose their sense of individual identity.

• Groups can generate a sense of emotional excitement, which can lead to the provocation of behaviors that a person would not typically engage in if alone.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYIh4MkcfJA

The Bystander Effect• The phenomenon in

which the greater the number of people present, the less likely people are to help a person in distress.

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSsPfbup0ac

TKAM Background Builder Video Response

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqqMNhzcpTc• Please free write for 5-10 minutes on the video clip that

you saw. What are your initial reactions? Be sure to give SPECIFIC examples!

• What does this have to do with mob mentality and/ or the Bystander Effect?

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQHdbW36XjE• Please free write again on part II of the video. • How might this apply to To Kill a Mockingbird? To which

characters do these concepts apply specifically? Explain.

TKAM Background Builder Video Response

• Please free write for 5-10 minutes on the video clips that you saw. What are your initial reactions? Be sure to give SPECIFIC examples!

• What does this have to do with mob mentality and/ or the Bystander Effect?

• How might this apply to To Kill a Mockingbird? To which characters do these concepts apply specifically? Explain.