Darley and Latané Observed That Most University Students Failed to Help

question 40

Multiple Choice

Darley and Latané observed that most university students failed to help a person having an epileptic seizure when they thought there were four other witnesses to the emergency.The students' failure to help is best explained in terms of

• A)the reciprocity norm.
• B)a failure to interpret the incident as an emergency.
• C)indifference and apathy.
• D)the bystander effect.

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Definitions:

Contingency Table

A table used in statistics to display the frequency distribution of variables, helping in analyzing the relationship between different categorical variables.

Frequency of Occurrence

The rate at which a particular event or outcome happens within a specific interval of time or within a given data set.

Chi-square Test for Independence

A statistical method employed to assess if a significant relationship exists between two variables of categorical type.

Degrees of Freedom

The number of independent values or quantities which can be assigned to a statistical distribution, typically defined as the sample size minus the number of parameters estimated.