Monday, August 27, 2012

Pro & Anti - social Behaviour

Session 20 - Pro - social Behaviour

Run through the main ideas and concepts from last session - including the CYU 7.4 from the textbook. Ensure all students have completed and up to date...

Move onto Pro-social Behaviour, students are to place the following in their workbooks:


Pro-Social Behaviour refers to any behaviour intended to help or benefit another person, group or society. It is intentional, i.e. the goal was to provide assistance. When the goal is not to help someone, regardless of whether somebody else benefits, it is not pro-social behaviour.  There are a number of factors that can influence pro-social behaviour. These include situational factors, social norms and personal factors.

Run through the ideas and concepts outlined above - discuss with the class. Discuss any examples that students have have experienced, witness or heard of...


Move onto the Pro–social Behaviour table – all students must complete using 213 – 216 of the textbook (definitions/examples). Will need to run through how to fill out the sheet with the class.

Allow time for students to complete – then go through definitions and examples.

Discuss the rest of the concepts and theories outlined in table with the class.

Move onto the questions:
  • Are we born with a universal set of morals? Or are they learnt?
  • Why do we behave they way we do in certain situations?
  • Are these behaviours common across all organisms?
Discuss the questions above as a class - then move on to and introduce the TED talk:


Discuss the main ideas from the clip - What can you take away from the experiments shown in the clip?


Session 21 - Anti-Social Behaviour


Run through the main ideas and concepts from last session - specifically the idas based around the TED talk (see above)...


Move onto the idea of Altruism – read section on page 216.

Question: If you could change the world (for the better) what would you do?

Look at the idea ‘Pay It Forward’


Watch ‘Pay it Forward’ clip and get student opinions – could this actually work???

Real life examples / movements:






Move onto Anti-social Behaviour students are to copy the following down in their workbooks:


Anti-social behaviour is any behaviour that is disruptive or harmful to the wellbeing or property of others or to the functioning of a group or society.



Students are to then fill out the Anti-social behaviour section of the A3 paper - run through the definitions and the examples with the class.

Discuss the origins of the Bystander Effect - look at the Kitty Genovese murder:
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2009/03/dayintech_0313

Watch the Bystander Effect clips - Would the general results from the clips be applicable to Melbourne or Fitzroy?


Students are to complete CYU 7.6 and 7.7 in their workbook.





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