Core Studies- Social Approach

Question 1

Pilliavin, sample

Answer 1

Anyone travelling between Harlem and Bronx, weekdays from 11am-3pm
4450 people of which 55% white and 45% black
Per carriage 43, crit area was 8.5 (avergaes)

Question 2

Pilliavin, different victims

Answer 2

Drunk:carried a bottle of alchol in a brown paper bag
Ill: sober, had a black cane
Both: were near the centre pole of critical area and collapsed.

Varied for race

Question 3

Pilliavin, different model conditions

Answer 3

Critical/Early, Critical/Late, Adj/Early and Adjacent/Late

Early/Late: 70 secs after model fell / 150 secs,

Also a “no model” run was done

Question 4

Pilliavin, Results (quant.)

Answer 4

62/65 ill trials had spontaneous help
19/38 drunk trials had spontaneous help
60% of spontaneous help was from two or three people
90% first respondents were male
64% of helpers were white

Question 5

Pilliavin (Qualitative)

Answer 5

Collected from two female confederates.
>comments were made when vic was drunk, or more time passed.
“It’s for men to help him.”
“I wish I could help, I’m not strong enough”
“You feel so bad you don’t know what to do.”

Question 6

Milgram Sample

Answer 6

40 participants, all male, from New Haven Yale babey
obtained through newspaper add with a 4.5$ incentive
lots of occupations & educations tho

Question 7

Milgram IV/DV

Answer 7

IV: the task itself: instruction to give shocks, as well as the prods functioned as IV
DV: “obedience” (operationalized as: “the highest degree of shock administered”)

Question 8

Milgram materials & stooge

Answer 8

Electric chair. Electrode paste “to avoid burns”
Shock generator marked from 15 to 450, intervals at 15V
Researcher: stern biology professor in a labcoat
Stooge: Aimable man, “mild-mannered”, named Wallace

Question 9

Milgram Quantitative

Answer 9

5 refused to go past 300
4 broke off at 315
26/40 (65%) were completely obedient, only 35% didn’t give the full dose

Question 10

Milgram Qualitative

Answer 10

Lots of hysterical laughter,
one had a fit of seizrues
Some broke out into rashes
some remained perfectly calm throughout.

Question 11

Prods in Milgram

Answer 11

1. Please continue/Please go on
2. The experiment requires that you continue
3. It is absolutely essential that you continue
4. You have no other choice, you must go on.