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In a Study by Latané and Rodin (1969),a Female Experimenter

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In a study by Latané and Rodin (1969) ,a female experimenter apparently fell and hurt her ankle.What percentage of participants who were alone offered help?


Definitions:

Primacy Effect

A psychological phenomenon where the first pieces of information presented are better remembered than information presented later.

Halo Effect

The tendency to assume that a person has generally positive or negative traits as a result of observing one major positive or negative trait.

Fundamental Attribution Errors

The tendency to overemphasize personality-based explanations for behaviors observed in others while underemphasizing the role of situational factors.

Situational Attribution

Attributing a behavior to some external cause or factor operating within the situation; an external attribution.

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