Piliavin Subway Samaritans Flashcards
The name of the psychologists and real life case that triggered the Piliavin study was?
Latane and Darley and the Kitty Genovese murder
How many witnesses were there to the case in Kitty Genovese?
38
‘Bystander Apathy’ and ‘Bystander Effect’ refers to the actions of bystanders that do not help others in an emergency. True or False?
True
Piliavin et Al believed that people did not help in the real life murder of Kitty Genovese due to …?
Diffusion of responsibility
What type of experiment was this?
A Field Experiment
What was the DV?
The level of Bystander helping
What was the IV?
The type of race of the victim, behaviour of model and the size of the group of bystanders.
What was the mean number of passengers per carriage?
43
Why was there an uneven number of ‘drunk’ and ‘cane’ victims?
The male students who were confederates did not like playing the drunk victim
How old were the models?
24-29 years old
The victim collapsed when?
70 seconds after the train left the station
Piliavin found that people are more likely to help when they had watched a model help quite quickly after the victim collapsed. True or False
True
What percentage of male helpers were there?
90%
Piliavin found his hypothesis to be correct that it is diffusion of responsibility that prevents helping behaviour. True or False?
FALSE!!!!!!
Latane and Darley have said there are five septs to helping behaviour. What are steps 1 and 3?
We must notice the event and we must assume personal responsibility
