Oklahoma Social Studies PS.6.4
The Standard
- PS.6
- Evaluate influences, perspectives, and domains of motivation and emotion.
Examine the influence of the social situation on individual behavior and mental processes, including persuasion, conformity and obedience.
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · PS.6
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how other people and the setting can change what someone does or thinks. They tell apart persuasion through reasons, conformity to a group, and obedience to an authority figure.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given a short scenario, a student names the influence and points to the detail that shows it. They can explain why someone might go along while privately disagreeing.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may call any change of mind persuasion, even when someone follows a group without hearing an argument. They may confuse following friends with obeying an authority figure, or assume going along means a person agrees.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: A principal asks students to sign a pledge, friends sign first, and a poster gives reasons to sign. Identify where obedience, conformity, and persuasion appear, then name one thought that might lead a student to sign.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give students line-length cards to match privately, show a labeled mock majority answer, then let them choose again and compare their choices.
Ask students to write about a time someone agreed with a group but thought the group was wrong. What made agreeing easier?
Play a sorting game with scenario cards about friends, ads, and authority figures; students place each under persuasion, conformity, or obedience.
Show a club flyer, a product review count, and a school announcement; students explain how each might affect a real choice.
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Related Standards
- PS.5.2
Examine various types of social influence, including intergroup dynamics, persuasion, attraction, aggression, and altruism.
- S.5.6
Examine the extent to which individual and group responses influence potential resolutions to social problems.
- PS.5
Examine social influences on mental processes and behavior, as well as the human personality.
- S.4.4
Examine the benefits of belonging to social groups, as well as the power of social groups over behavior and attitudes.
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