Dev and Sam are in a crowd when some people start smashing a bus shelter. Dev, who has damage to his ventromedial pre-frontal cortex from an earlier head injury, joins in. Sam stops to think about how upset the people who use the shelter would feel, and walks away.
Using your knowledge of the brain in dispositional factors, explain the different behaviour of Dev and Sam.
76 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Psychology 4.2 Theories/Explanations, covering 4.2.1 Situational factors on conformity and crowds, 4.2.2 Situational factors on culture and obedience; criticisms, 4.2.3 Situational Factors research study: Bickman (1974), 4.2.4 Dispositional factors on conformity, crowds, morality, obedience, 4.2.5 Brain in dispositional factors; criticisms, and 4.2.6 Dispositional Factors research study: NatCen (2011). Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.