Social-piliavin Flashcards
What was the background summary of how this study came to? If that makes sense
Catherine Genovese (kitty) when she was stabbed and no one rang police
What year did the Piliavin study take place and roughly explain what the study is about? U better get this right Minami
1969
Underground tube where someone would collapse and see how many people would help them (Good Samaritan)
What is the definition of ‘diffusion of responsibility’?
Responsibility is shared equally amongst the people present, more people less personal responsibility
Definition of bystander apathy?
Assuming someone is doing it so you don’t do anything
Definition of altruism
Putting somebody else’s safety before yours
Definition of pluralistic ignorance?
When you look to see what other people are doing before you decide what to do
What research method did piliavin use? And what is the evidence for this?
Field experiment
Natural environment- New York Subway
And variables are manipulated (3 white men, 1 black man)
There are three points to the aim, say all three?
Hint: one of them is ethnocentric behaviour - people would help someone of the same race than someone of another
To see people in a face to face situation in a real life situation, where there is no clear escape, whether an ill person would get more help than a drunk.
Whether there would be ethnocentric behaviour
Whether intervention of a model will influence helping behaviour
What is the hypothesis?
Would be diffusion of responsibility and participants won’t offer to help victims
Name the 4 independent variables
1) type of victim [drunk or ill]
2) race of victim
3) presence of helping models
4) size of witnessing group
Name 6 dependent variables
1) no. of helpers
2) speed of help
3) race of helper
4) gender of helper
5) movement out of area
6) verbal comments
How large was the sample roughly
4450 passengers
Describe the sample used
1) how were they all travelling
2) between what time
3) how long did they do the study
4) what percentage were white and black
5) 43 was the mean number of what
1) all travelling on the New York subway
2) between 11am-3pm
3) over period of 2 months
4) 55% white 45% black
5) mean no. of passengers per carriage during these hours
What sampling method did he use?
Opportunity sampling
How did piliavin obtain that sample?
The researcher used whoever was on the subway at the time of the research
Name one strength of the sample
Large reasonably diverse group of people
Name three weaknesses of the sample
1) cannot generalise to other forms of transport
2) cannot generalise to people from other countries because they are all from NY
3) cannot generalise that travel at different times only 11-3
Strengths of obtains the sample
Quick
Convenient
Economical
What is quantitative - descriptive or numerical
Numerical
What is qualitative mean - numerical or descriptive
Descriptive
Findings - quantitative
How many trails were there when the victim was in cane condition, how many helped the victim and what was the average time in secs?
65 trials
62 helped
Average 5 secs
Findings - quantitive
How many trials were there for the drunk victim, how many helped and what was the average time in secs?
I believe that you can get this question right
38 trails
19 helped
Average 109 secs
Findings - quantitative
What percentage of helper were male?
90% were male
Finding - quantitative
34 is the number of passengers who did what?
That left the critical area ESPECIALLY when the victim appeared drunk
