Piliavin Subway Samaritans Flashcards

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1
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The name of the psychologists and real life case that triggered the Piliavin study was?

A

Latane and Darley and the Kitty Genovese murder

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2
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How many witnesses were there to the case in Kitty Genovese?

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38

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3
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‘Bystander Apathy’ and ‘Bystander Effect’ refers to the actions of bystanders that do not help others in an emergency. True or False?

A

True

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Piliavin et Al believed that people did not help in the real life murder of Kitty Genovese due to …?

A

Diffusion of responsibility

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What type of experiment was this?

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A Field Experiment

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What was the DV?

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The level of Bystander helping

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What was the IV?

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The type of race of the victim, behaviour of model and the size of the group of bystanders.

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What was the mean number of passengers per carriage?

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43

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Why was there an uneven number of ‘drunk’ and ‘cane’ victims?

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The male students who were confederates did not like playing the drunk victim

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How old were the models?

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24-29 years old

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The victim collapsed when?

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70 seconds after the train left the station

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12
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Piliavin found that people are more likely to help when they had watched a model help quite quickly after the victim collapsed. True or False

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True

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13
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What percentage of male helpers were there?

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90%

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14
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Piliavin found his hypothesis to be correct that it is diffusion of responsibility that prevents helping behaviour. True or False?

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FALSE!!!!!!

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Latane and Darley have said there are five septs to helping behaviour. What are steps 1 and 3?

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We must notice the event and we must assume personal responsibility

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16
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Low Empathy + High cost = ?

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No Help

17
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The 2 observers noted, the time taken to help, the number of helpers, the race, gender and location of the participants as well as what they said. This ensured:

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Inter-rater reliability