LAB 2

 

For next week's lab you need to be able to do the following:
	1	First, do some research on the phenomenon known as the "Bystander effect" (and sometimes as "Bystander Intervention"). Use the web, intro textbook or other sources to learn about the phenomena (you do NOT need to do any formal lit search or ILL - just understand the level of detail that is typically found in Intro Psych texts on this research). The historical research was done by Darley and Latanne.
		- Be able to describe the phenomena (Yes, some lucky students will get to speak to the class).
		- Be able to describe the basic experimental setup (What happened with/to the participants in the lab).
		- Be able to describe the general findings of this work - what is the takehome message?
		- Be able to provide the major explanations of the demonstrated behaviors .
		- Think about what you might change if this was your project and you wanted to find out a little bit more about WHY the behavior happened.
	2	Be ready to write a short paragraph laying all of the important details out.