biological bases of behavior/ social behavior

Biological bases of behavior (2 pages)

Use the internet (try YouTube for some fun examples) and learn more about one of the following social psychology experiments (choose one and describe what you learned): the bystander effect, Milgram’s studies of obedience, Stanford prison experiment, conformity. Include what aspect of social psychology the video demonstrates, define what concept you

believe is represented and provide supporting argument using what we discuss in class to discuss how well or how poorly the video represents that concept. If discussing the classic

social psychology experiments, provide a summary of the experiment in its entirety and discuss its implications

Social Behavior (2 pages)

Suppose you were the subject of a diabolical experiment looking at the functions of various brain areas. A mad scientist wants to do “removal studies” in order to isolate these functions. The mad scientist does have a heart, though – he lets his subjects decide which brain structures they’d like to give up. If you were a subject in this heinous (and thankfully fictional) experiment, which three brain structures would you be willing to give up? How would your behavior change? How might you cope with these changes?