Social Area

Question 1

Bystander apathy/ bystander effect

Answer 1

People fail to act and help someone in need when other are present

Question 2

Diffusion of responsibility

Answer 2

When there is a victim and loss of bystander, each individual take less responsibility, so no one helps because there’s someone else would. each individual preserve the responsibility of helping to be shared among everyone who is present and so see themselves as being less responsible

Question 3

Altruism

Answer 3

Unselfish concern for other people doing things, simply out of a desire to help, not because you feel obligated to out of duty ,loyalty, religious reason. It involves acting out of concern for the well-being of other people.

Question 4

Confederate

Answer 4

individuals who seem to be participants but in reality are part of the research team

Question 5

Authority

Answer 5

A person who is perceived to be in a position of social control , higher hierarchy within a situation.

Question 6

Obedience

Answer 6

the act of following the instructions or orders of an authority figure.

Question 7

Defining principle of the social area

Answer 7

Our behaviour is governed by other people and the social environment we are in

Question 8

Concept of the social area

Answer 8

Obedience to authority figures
Diffusion of responsibility
Altruism
Bystander apathy
Cost and reward model