Cypress College 12 Angry Men Film Discussion

Set 1 – Questions Pertaining to “12 Angry Men” Film:

https://www.publicdomainmoviess.com/movie/309-12-a…

https://youtu.be/3DaUsU_2bpI

Purpose and Objective:

The use of film can engage students and promote active learning.
Films offer concrete examples for students (Kinney, 1975), and they
often present human behavior in greater complexity than is portrayed in
standard textbooks (Anderson, 1992).

Many instructors have been using the movie “12 Angry Men” as an
integrative review of social psychology. Others (e.g., Anderson, 1992;
Bolt, 1976) have suggested using this movie as an example of jury
decision making or conformity pressures. Careful viewing of the movie
reveals that it contains much more. The movie has examples of many
different social psychological phenomena, portrayed in a complex and
realistic setting. Because the movie was not made specifically to
demonstrate social psychological principles, the examples are not always
obvious, are often “messy”, and require students to think deeply and
critically about the issues. Finally, the movie allows students to
examine how situational forces can affect the behavior of individuals
even though the individuals have strong and diverse personalities.

What you will complete:

As you watch/view the film, look for examples of psychological/social
psychological phenomena (and be sure to take notes), such as:

After you have viewed the film, please answer the questions presented below:

1) What are your general thoughts/impressions about the film? What
psychological/social psychological themes emerged for you? By themes I
mean broader ideas and the underlying meaning.

2) How does the film tie into the study/field of social psychology?
What specific examples of social psychological phenomena (listed above
in bold) did you notice? Please be specific and provide detailed
examples (please focus on at least one of these, but of course, you can
discuss more).

3) How do these phenomena/examples apply to real-world
contexts/situations/settings? In other words, what are some of the
real-world implications of these examples? What is the
utility/importance in having an understanding of these phenomena?

Set
2: In keeping with the theme of trying new, innovative, and creative
exercises and methodologies, I have also decided for this week to try a
Word Cloud activity with you. Please read the instructions carefully below:

1) Using your notes from the readings and videos this week, create a
Word Cloud on key ideas, themes, takeaways, etc. using this free tool: https://www.abcya.com/games/word_clouds (Links to an external site.)

2) Use the prompts I have provided (see below) to guide the development of your Word Cloud:

Prompts to Generate Ideas/Facilitate Word Cloud Development

• What ideas/topics/concepts/phenomena stood out to you most this week?
  • Here are some examples: Compliance,
    Obedience, Power of Authority, and Group Influence, Conformity,
    Minority Influence, Normative Influence, Attribution Errors/Biases,
    Aggression, Leadership, Persuasion/Central and Peripheral Processing,
    Groups Dynamics and Decision-making, Deindividuation, Social Loafing,
    Psychology & Law, Jury Decision-Making, Social Cognition
    (Overconfidence, Availability and Representative Heuristics) Helping,
    Bystander Effect/Bystander Apathy, Diffusion of Responsibility, and
    Pluralistic Ignorance, Cult Leadership
• Do you see a connection/correlation/relationship with previous
  topics/ideas/concepts presented and discussed thus far? Which ones? How
  do they all relate/connect to one another?

3) Once you have created your Word Cloud, then take a screenshot or
photo using your phone and upload to the discussion forum. Use the
“upload image” icon in the toolbar to do so (the one that looks somewhat
like a polaroid photograph or a rectangle with circular and triangular
shapes in the middle of it).

However, if you are having issue embedding the image, please feel free to attach the file instead.

4) In your discussion post, please be sure to describe your Word
Cloud and how it relates/applies to any of the topics for this week.

8) Finally, respond to at least one classmate (this is required for this specific post)

I hope you will have fun with this!