Questão 1
Questão
Kitty Genovese was murdered in New York in 1964. Choose facts from below that are true about this story.
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The attack lasted for only 5 minutes
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The attack lasted for over 30 minutes
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She was near her home
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38 neighbours said they heard what happened and could describe the murderer
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Several reports went to the police of the problem
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The police did nothing
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The neighbours did nothing
Questão 2
Questão
Latane and Darley believe that people do not offer help because there are other people there who could help?
Questão 3
Questão
Latane and Darley did a study to see if people react less in an emergency when others are present. Choose the correct method and result from below.
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Method: They had participants sit in a room alone or in 3's completing questions and then poured smoke in the room.
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Method: They had participants sit in a room alone or in 3's completing questions and then poured a confederate faked a heart attack.
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Result: 75% of those who were alone reacted within 6 minutes compared to 38% when in the group.
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Result: 35% of those who were alone reacted within 6 minutes compared to 71% when in the group.
Questão 4
Questão
An [blank_start]evaluation[blank_end] of the study was it was conducted in a [blank_start]lab[blank_end]. People might behave [blank_start]differently[blank_end]. A reason for the behaviour seen could be [blank_start]diffusion of responsibility[blank_end]. It might be hard to decide what an [blank_start]emergency[blank_end] is. People look to others for [blank_start]cues[blank_end] as to how to behave when out of their [blank_start]comfort zone.[blank_end]
Questão 5
Questão
Angel Torres was paralysed below the neck after crossing the street and being hit by a hit and run driver. What else is true about this story. Choose 3 things.
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He made a full recovery
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Nobody did anything to help him...10 cars pass him lying in the road
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Police passing by found him on their way to another call
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He was laying on the pavement for over a minute without anyone checking he was ok.
Questão 6
Questão
Piliavin did a study to look at how the appearance of a victim might affect the help they got. His study had an actor collapse on a train carriage. Which answer below tells the rest of the story?
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A record of the collapse as a drunk is recorded and nobody wants to be involved.
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A record of the collapse as a drunk, someone with a stick or someone with a facial scar is recorded and timings taken.
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A record of the collapse as a drunk, someone with a stick or someone with a facial scar is recorded and timings taken showing 70% help the victim with the stick and only 20% help the drunk.
Questão 7
Questão
Piliavin concluded that appearance is not important.
Questão 8
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Piliavin did his study in a normal environment giving it mundane realism. His results were different to Latane and Darley because of this.
Questão 9
Questão
Batson et al looked at similarity between the victim and the bystander to see if this increased them being helped. Choose 2 correct answers.
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Participants watched a woman receive electric shocks (she was not)
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Participants could choose to end the shocks
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Participants only ended the shocks when they were similar to the victim
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More participants ended the shocks when they were similar to the victim
Questão 10
Questão
There are costs vs rewards when we choose to help someone.
Questão 11
Questão
Action requires altruism to overcome this cost/reward obstacle.
Questão 12
Questão
Latane and Darley talk about apathy but Schroeder et al disagreed. They believed the following....choose 1.
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They studied all the research done and felt that it was laziness.
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They studied all the research done and felt that there was distress and concern but belief that others could help more.
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They studied all the research done and felt that it was lack of skills.
Questão 13
Questão
The implication of researching conformity is that it is easy for individuals to act differently to the rest of the group e.g. in juries as seen in 12 Angry Men.
Questão 14
Questão
Milgram showed it is harder to disobey than it is to conform.
Questão 15
Questão
Social loafing can mean lazy people get away with doing nothing because hard working ones will make it seem like the job is getting done. In team sports this could be a problem.
Questão 16
Questão
In 1993 James Bulger was abducted and murder by 2 young boys. They took him from a shopping centre and murdered him. Which area of social influence can explain people seeing him leave the shopping centre and doing nothing.
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Bystander apathy
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Social Loafing
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Obedience
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Conformity