Social-piliavin

Question 0

What was the background summary of how this study came to? If that makes sense

Answer 0

Catherine Genovese (kitty) when she was stabbed and no one rang police

Question 1

What year did the Piliavin study take place and roughly explain what the study is about? U better get this right Minami

Answer 1

1969

Underground tube where someone would collapse and see how many people would help them (Good Samaritan)

Question 2

What is the definition of ‘diffusion of responsibility’?

Answer 2

Responsibility is shared equally amongst the people present, more people less personal responsibility

Question 3

Definition of bystander apathy?

Answer 3

Assuming someone is doing it so you don’t do anything

Question 4

Definition of altruism

Answer 4

Putting somebody else’s safety before yours

Question 5

Definition of pluralistic ignorance?

Answer 5

When you look to see what other people are doing before you decide what to do

Question 6

What research method did piliavin use? And what is the evidence for this?

Answer 6

Field experiment
Natural environment- New York Subway
And variables are manipulated (3 white men, 1 black man)

Question 7

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

Answer 7

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

Question 8

What is the hypothesis?

Answer 8

Would be diffusion of responsibility and participants won’t offer to help victims

Question 9

Name the 4 independent variables

Answer 9

1) type of victim [drunk or ill]
2) race of victim
3) presence of helping models
4) size of witnessing group

Question 10

Name 6 dependent variables

Answer 10

1) no. of helpers
2) speed of help
3) race of helper
4) gender of helper
5) movement out of area
6) verbal comments

Question 11

How large was the sample roughly

Answer 11

4450 passengers

Question 12

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

Answer 12

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

Question 13

What sampling method did he use?

Answer 13

Opportunity sampling

Question 14

How did piliavin obtain that sample?

Answer 14

The researcher used whoever was on the subway at the time of the research

Question 15

Name one strength of the sample

Answer 15

Large reasonably diverse group of people

Question 16

Name three weaknesses of the sample

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Strengths of obtains the sample

Answer 17

Quick
Convenient
Economical

Question 18

What is quantitative - descriptive or numerical

Answer 18

Numerical

Question 19

What is qualitative mean - numerical or descriptive

Answer 19

Descriptive

Question 20

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?

Answer 20

65 trials
62 helped
Average 5 secs

Question 21

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

Answer 21

38 trails
19 helped
Average 109 secs

Question 22

Findings - quantitative

What percentage of helper were male?

Answer 22

90% were male

Question 23

Finding - quantitative

34 is the number of passengers who did what?

Answer 23

That left the critical area ESPECIALLY when the victim appeared drunk

Question 24

Findings - qualitative
Comments were made by the passengers which were recorded by the observers.
Which gender did the comments mainly come from and try and quote 2 comments

Answer 24

Female
“It’s for the men to help”
“You feel so bad you don’t know what to do”

Question 25

What is the conclusion?

Answer 25

The observation of an emergency, creates a state of
Physiological arousal.
This is heightened by being close to the victim and the length of time the emergency continues for

Question 26

What r the 6 ethics

Answer 26

Consent
Deception
Withdraw
Debrief
Harm
Confidentiality

Question 27

What ethical guidelines did Piliavin stick to

Answer 27

Consent
Deception
Harm

Question 28

Why was there high EV (2)

Answer 28

Carried out on a real train

Real passengers

Question 29

Why was it low EV

Answer 29

People could of seen it more than once

Question 30

Identify one problem in the study

Hint: ethics

Answer 30

It’s unethical.
Passengers didn’t give consent to take part
Didn’t know they were being observed on the train

Question 31

Identify a second problem other than ethics of the study

Answer 31

The enviroment
Passengers may only have helped because they were trapped on a train
They may not normally help if it was a different situation