The Textbook Describes an Experiment by Darley and Batson (1973)that

question 15

Multiple Choice

The textbook describes an experiment by Darley and Batson (1973) that looked at willingness to help in seminary students.In one condition, participants were made to hurry from one building to another by being told that they were late for the experiment.In the other condition, participants were only told to go over to another building in order to start the experiment.Both groups encountered a person lying on the ground on their way to the other building.The experimenter observed the participants from both groups and counted the number of people who stopped to check on the person lying on the ground.It was found that the participants who were in a hurry stopped much less frequently than the participants who were not in a hurry.In this experiment, what was the dependent variable?

• A) being made to hurry from one building to another
• B) the person lying on the ground
• C) the number of people stopping to check on the person lying on the ground
• D) going from one building to another

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