Genocide Exam I Study Guide

• Know the statistics concerning genocide, war, and refugees during the 20th century

• Define Rummel's basic terms and know generally the history of democide prior to the 20th century.

• Discuss the myths of evil as presented by Baumeister.

• Discuss the "magnitude gap" that exists between perpetrators and victims.
  Explain the four factors involved in the magnitude gap.
  Apply the above concept and its impact on individuals/cultures.

• Discuss Fein's definition of genocide.

• Describe and discuss Woolf and Hulsizer's psychosocial model of genocide.

• Discuss the cultural preconditions commonly associated with cultures at risk for genocide and mass violence.

• Discuss the impact of situational factors including crisis and authoritarian governments in the promotion of mass violence and genocide.
  Be sure to include all of the features associated with each and the impact that they have on individuals and groups.

• Discuss the social psychological factors associated with mass violence and genocide including social cognitive (e.g., ingroup bias, heuristics, confirmation bias, illusory correlations, belief perseverance, fundamental attribution error, belief in a just world), social influence (e.g., conformity, social roles, obedience to authority, foot-in-the-door, deindividuation, use of propaganda, groupthink, group polarization), and social relations (e.g., scapegoating, realistic conflict) factors.

• Outline and discuss the steps along the path to mass violence and genocide and corresponding psychological factors.

• Discuss the role of bystanders in relation to mass violence and genocide.

• Describe and discuss the research related to all of the above as presented in the Woolf and Hulsizer article.

• Discuss and describe Elliot's demonstration of prejudice development in children (blue/brown eyes)

• Discuss and describe Milgram's obedience study.

• Discuss and describe Zimbardo's prison study.

• Discuss and describe Asch's conformity study.

• Discuss and provide an example of "moral exclusion".

• Explain what is meant by the term "banality of evil".

• Discuss the social circumstances and factors that may lead to nationalism as described by Kecmanovic.

• Explain social role theory and relate it to perpetrator behavior as well as the Zimbardo study.

• Discuss and describe the events related to the genocide of the Hereros.

• Describe the political climate in the Ottoman Empire prior to World War I

• Describe life for the Armenians and other minority groups in the Ottoman Empire prior to World War I

• Discuss the role of World War I in the development of the Armenian genocide

• Desribe the stages of genocide organized against the Armenians and the rationale for these steps

• Apply Woolf and Hulsizer's model of genocide (including such factors as historical cultural preconditions, crisis, authoritarian governments, ideology, social psychological factors, etc) to the Armenian genocide.

  You should be able to define and apply the following additional terms:

  Ethnocide

  Ottoman Empire

  Ethnic Cleansing

  You should be able to identify the following individuals or groups:

  Abdul Hamid	Enver Pasha	Talaat Pasha
  Young Turks	L. Gen. Lothar Von Trotha

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