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6. What was the experimental method?

  • Pre-Experiment
  • Quasi Experiment
  • Field Experiment
  • Laboratory Experiment

7. Where was the critical area?

  • The carriage the victim collapsed in
  • A 3 meter radius around where the victim collapsed
  • The carriage adjacent to the one the victim collapsed in
  • A 2 meter radius around where the victim collapsed

8. How was the ill model presented

  • They were in a wheelchair
  • They had a black cane
  • They were hunched over and coughing
  • They were pale and swayed

9. What effect did race have on the results

  • The same-race help was more visible in the drunk condition only
  • People were more likely to help someone of their race in both conditions
  • Race didn't affect whether someone helped the victim
  • Race had a minimal effect on whether someone helped the victim, but gender did

10. Which of these wasn't an independent variable?

  • Gender of victim
  • Race of victim
  • Effect of modelling behaviour
  • Group size
  • The victim's responsibility

11. What percentage of cases were helped, and what percentage were helped by more than one person?

  • 80% 75%
  • 82% 73%
  • 79% 60%
  • 70% 22%

12. What percentage of drunk victims received help?

  • 40%
  • 50%
  • 20%
  • 70%

13. According to the cost reward model, why do people react to an unpleasant event?

  • Fight (help) or flight (leave)
  • To reduce arousal
  • To stop someone else from feeling negative arousal
  • Try to reduce their involvement by solving the problem or leaving the area

14. How long was the journey between the two stations in minutes?

  • 7.5
  • 5.5
  • 13.0
  • 2.0

15. What were the dependent variables?

  • When the first person helped and how many people helped
  • How long it took for the person to be taken to a seat and how many people helped them to do so
  • When the first person helped and for how long
  • How many people helped and for how long

16. Whose study also covers diffusion of responsibility?

  • Oxman et al.
  • Darley and Latane
  • Cherry
  • Hirsch and Spinelli

17. What is pluralistic ignorance?

  • Defining a situation as not an emergency due to the situation being vague or people seeming calm
  • The effect whereby having more people around makes you less likely to act to help in an emergency
  • Reacting calmly to an emergency by using excuses to reduce your arousal
  • The belief that someone will do something that deals with an emergency so you don't have to

18. When did the victim collapse?

  • They collapsed as the journey started
  • They collapsed 60 seconds into the train journey
  • 70 seconds after the train journey began
  • They were collapsed before the journey started

19. What did the two females in the group do?

  • Pointedly ignored the victim
  • Act as observers
  • One was the model, the other was the victim
  • React after a designated amount of time to help the victim

20. How was the drunk model presented

  • They had a bagged bottle of alcohol and smelt of alcohol
  • They held a bottle of alcohol and swayed
  • They were seen to be drinking and swayed around
  • They were seen swaying and stumbling