Social Area - Levine Flashcards
What were the 3 aims of Levine?
- to see if the tendency of helping behaviour was the same across different situations
- to see the characteristics of helping behaviour
- To see if helping behaviour varies across cultures
What were the three helping situations?
- dropped pen
- hurt leg
- helping a blind person across the street
Why was the asking for change condition not used?
Currency of money was different between countries
Why was the misled letters condition not used?
Suspicious packaging
Who were the confederates?
Students returning to home country (all male)
What was the correlation between population size and overall helping?
There was no correlation
What was the correlation between PPP and overall helping?
Steep Negative correlation
What was he correlation between individualism and overall helping?
There was no correlation
what was the correlation between walking speed and overall helping behaviour?
Shallow negative correlation
what as the correlation between collectivism and overall helping?
there was no correlation
What was the correlation between simpatica/o and overall helping?
There was a positive correlation
What was concluded from this study?
Simpatica/o means you are more likely to help
The more PPP you have, the less likely you are to help
How does this study change our understanding?
It shows that culture is one aspect that can influence others to engage in helpful behaviour
What method was used?
Experiment using observation
What are the strengths of the method used?
Allowed correlation and showed relationship between variables and helping behaviour
What are the negatives of the method used?
Cause and effect could not be established
What type of data was collected?
Quant
What are the strengths of the data collected?
compare data between co-variables and helpfulness of countries
it is definitive and cannot argue
What are the weaknesses of data collected?
cannot get greater understanding of reasoning so not valid
How was this study ethical?
Personal details of ppts were not published
How was this study unethical?
deception
no consent
How was this study valid?
High E.V as data collected in field
How was this study invalid?
members of public may have become suspicious if they saw confederate repeatedly dropping pen
How is this study reliable?
Highly standardised because experimenters received instructions
Behaviour categories showed consistency of helpfulness
How is this study scientific?
used controls so standardised procedure
method was replicable
trained data collectors
