Crowd Behavior and Subway Samaritans

Multiple Choice

When one or more individuals don't help someone in need.

• Diffusion of Responsibility

• Bystanderism

• Prosocial Behavior

• Misinformation Effect

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Looking for others for guidance on how to act in situations of ambiguity is called...

• Normative Social Influence

• Informational Social Influence

• Conformity

• Descriptive Social Influence

Multiple Choice

A "confederate" is...

• Another name for a participant

• A participant who doesn't follow instructions

• A soldier in the US army

• An actor who is working for the researcher

Multiple Choice

When people don't feel they need to help because there are others around.

• Diffusion of responsibility

• Bystanderism

• Prosocial Behavior

• Misinformation Effect

Multiple Choice

Following someone else's orders or instructions.

• Bystander Effect

• Diffusion of Responisbility

• Sensory overload

• Compliance

Multiple Choice

during a disaster, you are more likely to help your family before friends. this is a type of _______ prosocial behavior.

• reciprocity

• evolutionary

• altruism

• disaster helping

Multiple Choice

what is prosocial behavior?

• actions that harms another individual or group

• actions that shows signs of professionalism

• actions that help or benefit another individual or group

• Socializing with friends

Multiple Choice

select an example of altruism

• offering food to someone although you dont have food for yourself

• offering food to someone in order to get them to like us

• avoiding parking at no parking zone

• helping your friend so that he will help you with your assignment

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is TRUE about Bystander effect?

• Voluntary actions that are intended to help another individual

• Obligation to return in kind what another has done for us in good will.

• People are less likely to help when they are in group than when they are alone.

• The closer we are genetically to a person, the more likely we are to help

Multiple Choice

Bystander behaviour (bystander apathy) in an emergency situation means

• Everyone feels a responsibility to help
• There are a lot of bystanders.
• Bystanders are more likely to behave prosocially.
• A victim is less likely to be helped.

Multiple Choice

Prosocial helping situations in lab studies tend to be unrealistic.

• true
• false

Multiple Choice

The ‘victim’ in Piliavin's study was always a female student.

• true
• false

Multiple Choice

In Piliavin's study, a victim who appeared ‘deserving’ was more likely to get help.

• true
• false

Multiple Choice

In Piliavin's study, the proportion of trials in which the ‘drunk’ victim received help was:

• 50
• 70
• 87
• 90

Multiple Choice

Participants in Piliavin et al.’s study were more likely to help when there were fewer people around.

• true
• false

Multiple Choice

Piliavin et al. carried out a lab study of bystander behaviour.

• true
• false

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Piliavin’s theory of helping is called the cost-reward model.

• true
• false