2. Bystander Effect

Question 1

Bystander effect

Answer 1

we are less likely to act when in groups

Question 2

Diffusion of responsibility

Answer 2

people feel less personal pressure & guilt to take action when others are present

Question 3

Helping behaviour

Answer 3

act of intentionally benefitting someone else

Question 4

Prosocial behaviour

Answer 4

behaviour intending to benefit society

Question 5

Altriusm

Answer 5

Selflessly helping people out of concern for their wellbeing

Question 6

Helping - Step 1 & Problem

Answer 6

Notice that something is happening
or
Distraction, self-concerns

Question 7

Helping - Step 2

Answer 7

Interpret event as emergency
or
Ambiguity

Question 8

Pluralistic ignorance

Answer 8

a false impression of what most other people are thinking or feeling, or how they are responding

Question 9

Step 3

Answer 9

Taking responsibility to help
or
Diffusion of responsibility

Question 10

Step 4

Answer 10

Decide how to help
or
Lack of competence

Question 11

Step 5

Answer 11

Provide help
or
Cost-reward analysis
Audience inhibition (embarrassment)

Question 12

Just world hypothesis

Answer 12

the idea that people in misfortune deserve what they’re getting because they got themselves into this situation

Question 13

Liebst & Philpot - Meta study

Answer 13

Meta study of CCTV footage
Classical bystander effect was observed (goes against hypothesis)
Social relations –> interfering

Question 14

Darley & Latane

Answer 14

Seizure
More people - less likely to help & more time to help
People who didn’t help were more distressed
Ambiguity rather than apathy

Question 15

Bystander effect - apathy

Answer 15

The bystander effect does not occur due to personality deficiencies of the bystanders or apathy to the emergency but by situational factors that cause people to be indecisive