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What were the four hypothesis’ for the study?

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  • more help would be given to person of the same race as bystander
  • drunk person would receive less help than an ill person
  • model showing helping behaviour would encourage the same behaviour
  • more people = less help due to diffusion of responsibility
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What were the aims of the study (looking at four areas of focus)?

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  • responsibility of victim
  • race of victim
  • effect of modelling
  • effect of group size
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What were the IV’s in the study?

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  • type of victim (drunk or ill)
  • race of victim (black or white)
  • presence of model (early or late)
  • number of bystanders present (naturally varied)
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What were thee pendent variables of the study?

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  • times taken for the first passenger to offer help
  • total number of passengers that helped
  • gender, location & race of each helper
  • time taken for first passenger to help after model has assisted
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What other measures were taken?

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  • movement of other passengers out of the critical area
  • gender, race & location of each passenger in critical location
  • spontaneous commented made by passengers
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What was the setting / location of the experiment?

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• A & D trains of the 8th avenue in IND in NYC
• no stopes for 7 & 1/2mins, & after first 70secs people became bystanders to emergency situation
• 103 trials of export conducted
• designated experiment or critical area at end of carriage where doors to next carriage were
15 seats & standing in each train

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Was was the sample of the experiment?

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  • 4450 male & female used weekday trains between 11am & 3pm
  • 15th April - 26th June 1968
  • unsolicited participants
  • racial ratio of typical train = 45% black to 55% white