WorksheetsPiliavin et al (1969) Revision - Background/Context
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What is a bystander?
An actor or stooge who is told what to do by an experiment
A victim who has been involved in an incident/accident and needs help
Some one who helps a victim who has been involved in an incident/accident
Some one who is present at the scene of an incident/accident but does not necessarily help
Kitty Genovese was murdered in New York in the United States of America in...
1961
1963
1964
1969
A New York Times article claimed that Kitty Genovese’s death was witnessed by how many people who did nothing to help?
18
28
38
68
Bystander apathy refers to when passersby...
ignore or show indifference towards a person who is in need of assistance in a public place
helping a person in need of assistance in a public place
observing others helping a person in need of assistance in a public place and then also getting involved themselves
put themselves at risk to help a person who is n needs of assistance in a public place
Diffusion of responsibility helps to explain why the more bystanders who are present when a person is in need
the more likely people are to help
the less likely people are to help
the more emotionally involved people feel
the more people will as others to get involved
What is meant by Samaritanism?
not helping a person who is in need
offering help to a person who is in need, often at some personal cost
offering help but only if it makes you loo good to other people
only helping if no one else is present
Darley and Latané 1968 provided support for the diffusion of responsibility if their study where ..
a stranger fell over
a person sounded as though they were having a seizure
a man fell onto the New York line in front of a train
a person collapsed on aNew York subway carriage
Latané and Rodin (1969) found that people in a group were less likely to help a person who had fallen over if the victim was...
bleeding but conscious
drunk compared with disabled
a different skin colour to themselves
a stranger compared with an acquaintance
When people observe someone else acting as a Samaritan they are...
less likely to help
more likely to help
Piliavin was concerned that laboratory studies of bystander behaviour...
compromised ecological validity for the sake of reliability
compromised internal validity for the sake of ecological validity
had a lack of demand characteristics
were unethical
