Oklahoma Social Studies PS.5

PS.5 is a cluster heading. These are the individual standards under it.

• PS.5.1

  Explain how attitudes, biases, and beliefs affect behavior and relationships with others.

• PS.5.2

  Examine various types of social influence, including intergroup dynamics, persuasion, attraction, aggression, and altruism.

• PS.5.3

  Explain how biological and environmental factors interact to influence personality.

01

What Students Need to Do

Students explain how group pressure, first impressions, and persuasive messages can change choices and relationships. They use examples of friendship, conflict, and helping to show how biology and life experiences can shape personality together.

02

What Mastery Looks Like

Given a short scenario, a student can identify a belief or bias and explain how it affects someone's actions. They can explain why the same situation might affect two people differently, using both temperament and past experience.

03

Common Misconceptions

Students may think bias only means open hostility, missing quiet assumptions about whom to trust. They may also think persuasive messages always work or that genes fix personality.

04

How to Assess It

Exit ticket: A student avoids a new classmate after friends call the classmate strange, then warms up after working together. Identify a group influence and a changed belief, and explain how an inborn tendency and experience could both affect the student's response.

1. 01

   Give groups identical student profiles labeled same school or rival school; have them rate trust, then compare ratings and explain any differences.

2. 02

   Ask students to discuss why someone might join friends in mocking a classmate despite privately thinking it is wrong.

3. 03

   Sort cards showing a cafeteria argument, a fundraiser pitch, a new friendship, and a dropped-book rescue; label each influence and defend the choices.

4. 04

   Compare two school club flyers; circle each persuasive appeal and write which student interests or beliefs it targets.

• PS.4.2

  Examine major theories of human development.

• PS.7

  Examine mental disorders and the factors that promote mental and physical health.

• PS.6.4

  Examine the influence of the social situation on individual behavior and mental processes, including persuasion, conformity and obedience.