Lesson 2: Attitude Formation & Change
Duration of Days: 6
Lesson Objective
Students will analyze how attitudes are developed, maintained, and changed.
How are attitudes formed?
Why are some messages persuasive?
How does cognitive dissonance affect beliefs?
When do people resist persuasion?
AP Psychology Unit 4
Science Practice 4: Argumentation
CCSS.WHST.11-12.1
CCSS.RH.11-12.1
C3: D2.Psy.17.9-12
Students evaluate persuasive messages and defend claims using psychological evidence. (DOK 4)
Persuasion templates
Sentence frames
Media examples
Small-group debates
Guided writing
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Persuasion analysis
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Argumentative essay
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Exit ticket
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Quiz