Bystander Intervention Flashcards
What was Cherry’s main point with regard to social experiments?
Reflect cultural knowledge of the experimenter working in a social context
What does Francis Cherry demonstrate about Darley and Latane’s explanations in terms of individual and social (dualistic) variables?
Preoccupation with intellectual frameworks and methodologies which consequently ignored socio-cultural processes
What experimental notion do critical social psychologists challenge?
Notion that individual and situational variables can be isolated and operationalised
Why was it a good point that researchers sought to challenge intra-psychic processes in favour of a social situational explanation?
Challenged views of apathy and non-caring personal attributes
What was the view of many mainstream experimental researchers to explain the phenomenon of what happened in the case of the rape and murder of Kitty Genovese?
Individual characteristics, eg personality and apathy
What position does Francis Cherry take up within critical social psychology?
Feminist reflexive position
What was Darley and Latane’s opposing view relating to the mainstream experimental researchers regarding bystander intervention?
Situational factors and diffusion of responsibility and blame across the group
How did Cherry reassess the events through a feminist perspective?
Broader view of violence, rape, incest, pornography and clitorectomy
What did Darley and Latane argue about the bystander inaction?
Rationalised on the basis that some other unseen person has already responded to the situation
What does Cherry’s work appear to call for?
Standpoint epistemology
What experiment was used to test bystander inaction?
Subject placed alone in a room (one subject pretends to have a seizure)
From a critical social perspective what does the experimental approach ignore?
Personal histories, value and moral principles of the society in which they live
What did Rosenthal note about the Kitty case with regards to the media?
Black man raped a white woman not reported
What were the positive points of the bystander inaction experiment?
Experimenter was viewed favourably (lived human experience)
Challenged intra-psychic processes
What is Francis Cherry’s main point?
Researchers have histories, experiences, society and culture hence their theories, methodologies and knowledge reflect these
