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Social area: Piliavin Flashcards

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1
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Describe the case of Kitty Genovese

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A woman was stabbed to death over a period of 30 minutes to the knowledge of 38 unresponsive witnesses

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What is bystander apathy?

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A social psychological phenomenon in which individuals don’t offer help to a victim when others are present. Receiving help is linked to the number of bystanders

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What is diffusion of responsibility?

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When individuals are less likely to take responsibility for actions when others are present and assume that others are responsible

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What were the 4 aims/hypotheses/research questions?

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1) The type of victim (drunk/ill)
2) Race of victim (black/white)
3) The presence of helping models
4) The size of the witnessing group

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What was Piliavin’s research method?

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Field experiment, Observation, Snapshot

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What were the IV’s in terms of victim conditions?

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Drunk or Ill

Black or white

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What were the IVs in terms of model conditions?

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Early or late

Critical area or adjacent area

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What was the 7 DVs?

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Frequency of help
Speed of help
Race of helper
Sex of helper
Verbal comments
Movement out of area
Total number of people in carriage
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9
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What subway were the emergencies staged on?

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NY 8th Avenue Subway

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When were the emergencies staged? (day/time/date)

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Weekdays from 11am-3pm from 15th April ‘68 to 26th June ‘68

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How many teams of how many students were there?

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4 teams of 4 students

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12
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How long into the journey would the victim collapse?

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70 seconds

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13
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How many times was the emergency staged?

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103 times

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14
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What was the sex of the victim?

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Male

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Describe how the victims were dressed

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Identically in Eisenhower jackets, old trousers and no tie

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16
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What was the ratio of black to white (victim)?

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1:3

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17
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What was the age range of the victims?

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26-35

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18
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On how many trials did the victim appear drunk?

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38

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19
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What was the main characteristic to identify the drunk victim?

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Carried a bottle of liquor in a brown bag

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How many trials did the victim appear blind?

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65

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21
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What was the blind victims carrying?

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Black cane

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22
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Describe the model

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Aged 24-29 and dressed informally

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After how long did an ‘early’ model intervene?

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70 seconds

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After how long did a ‘late’ model intervene?

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120 seconds

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What were the names of the two areas in the carriage?

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Critical area and adjacent area

26
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What were the four model conditions?

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Critical - early
Critical - late
Adjacent - early
Adjacent - late

27
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In what area were the observers?

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Adjacent

28
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In what area was the victim?

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Critical

29
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Give 4 controls that Piliavin used

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What the victim wore, the race and gender of the model, the gender of the victim, the time of collapse

30
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Describe the sample used in the study

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4,450 men and women (mean of 43 per carriage)
45% black
55% white

31
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What sampling method did Piliavin use?

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Opportunity sampling

32
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On how many trials did the blind victim receive spontaneous help?

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62/65

33
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What was the median latency of spontaneous help for the blind victim?

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5 seconds

34
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On how many trials did the drunk victim receive spontaneous help?

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19/38

35
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What was the median latency for spontaneous help for the drunk victim?

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109 seconds

36
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What was the proportion in terms of race when helping the blind victim?

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It was in accordance with the 45/55 split

37
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What was the proportion in terms of race when helping the drunk victim?

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There was a tendency of same race helping

38
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Why was it not possible to analyse the data for model intervention but what seemed to be the tendency?

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Because there was too much spontaneous helping however an early model seemed to have more of an effect

39
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Victims were helped much _____ when there were __ or more male passengers

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Faster

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40
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In what condition were there more comments made by women?

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Drunk

41
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Give 2 examples of qualitative data that was gathered

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‘I wish I could help’

‘It’s for the men to help’

42
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What did Piliavin conclude in terms of which condition is more likely to receive help?

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An individual who appears to be ill is more likely to receive help than one who appears drunk

43
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What was concluded in terms of which sex was more likely to help?

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Men were more likely to help than women

44
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What was concluded in terms of helping when a person was drunk (race)?

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There was a tendency for same race helping

45
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What was concluded in terms of how number of witnesses influence the speed of help?

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Help comes quickest and in greatest numbers when more witnesses are present

46
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The longer the emergency continues _____ help, the _____ of an impact the model will have

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Without

Less

47
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What model did Piliavin create as a result of the findings?

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Arousal cost-reward model

48
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What was the idea of the arousal cost-reward model?

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That there will be an emotional arousal and then we will weigh up the costs and rewards of helping before making a decision to help someone

49
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On what grounds can Piliavin’s research be accused of being ethnocentric?

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All living in the same area and so we only learn about American/New yorker behaviours

50
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How did Piliavin break the guideline of deception?

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Wasn’t a real person in need, people really believed that someone had collapsed

51
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How did Piliavin break the guideline of informed consent?

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People hadn’t given consent to what happened or to take part

52
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How did Piliavin break the guideline of debrief?

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Didn’t explain P’s afterwards what was happening or why the experiment happened

53
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Why could it be argued that Piliavin didn’t protect participants from harm?

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Because some distress and guilt was caused

54
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How did Piliavin break the guideline of withdrawal?

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P’s could walk into next carriage however they could not withdraw their data

55
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Which ethical guideline did Piliavin uphold?

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Confidentiality

56
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Was the study internally reliable (standardised and replicable)?

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Yes, there were clear controls, trained actors, specific timings and objective data

57
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Was the study externally reliable? Were there enough trials?

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103 in total but not enough with the black victim conditions and few model conditions carried out

58
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Was the study externally reliable? Was the sample large enough to confirm a consistent effect?

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Yes, total of 4450 and high levels of helping behaviour recorded

59
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Did the study have construct validity? Was it an accurate measure of ‘responses to people in need’?

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Generally, there were significant differences between drunk and cane condition however some people may have experienced the trial before so altered behaviour

60
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Did the study have population validity? Can the sample be generalised from?

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Impressive sample size and ethnic mix however the times of trials may mean certain people did not take part (e.g. school/people at work/disabled people)

61
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Was the study ecologically valid?

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Overall, yes can be seen as fairly true to life - not that bizarre that someone may collapse

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