WorksheetsPiliavin's subway study
Total questions: 8
Worksheet time: 4mins
What type of behaviour does Piliavin's subway study investigate?
Aggressive behaviour
Helping behaviour
Avoidant behaviour
Competitive behaviour
According to the worksheet, what is 'bystander behaviour'?
Helping someone in need immediately
Looking at the behaviour of bystanders in an emergency situation when someone else requires help
Ignoring people in public places
Acting aggressively in a crowd
In the method section, what were the two conditions for the 'victim' in the study?
Sober and aggressive
Drunk and disabled
Drunk and sober
Disabled and aggressive
A person using a cane (i.e. has a disability) was helped at some point on 95% of the trials, whereas a person who appeared drunk was helped on only 50% of the trials.
True
False
According to the results, people were more likely to offer help when:
They were alone in the subway carriage
They were in larger groups of people
There were only a few people in the subway carriage
The victim was aggressive
The drunk victim received spontaneous help in?
50% of the trials
98% of the trials
95% of the trials
What's the research design of this study?
Independent group design
Matched pairs
Repeated measures design
How many participants were there?
5540
4450
43
