Assume That You Are a Participant in Latané and Darley's

question 149

Multiple Choice

Assume that you are a participant in Latané and Darley's (1968) experiment examining when people help.You believe that there are four other people participating with you in a discussion,although you are isolated in a booth to ensure privacy.When you are listening to one of the other participants talk,you hear him beginning to have a seizure.According to their results,what are you most likely to do?

• A) Run out of the booth to find the experimenter for help.
• B) Anxiously remain in the booth and hope for the best.
• C) Leave the experiment because of psychological stress.
• D) Run out of the booth to help the person having the seizure.
• E) Try yelling through the walls to see if he is all right.

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Definitions:

Single-blind Tests

Experimental designs in which the participants do not know which treatment or intervention they are receiving, but the experimenters do.

Hypothesis

A statement that attempts to predict or to account for a set of phenomena; scientific hypotheses specify relationships among events or variables and are empirically tested.

Axiom

A statement or proposition that is regarded as being established, accepted, or self-evidently true.

Corollary

A proposition that follows from one already proven, often seen as a natural consequence or result.