A Social Psychologist Questions Whether or Not the Participants' Willingness

question 151

Multiple Choice

A social psychologist questions whether or not the participants' willingness to help a seizure victim in Latané and Darley's (1968) experiment was influenced by the fact that it was an apparent medical emergency.This researcher wants to run an experiment that is high in external validity.She could best investigate this issue by

• A) surveying people as to how they respond to different types of intervention situations.
• B) surveying people as to how they usually respond to medical emergencies.
• C) replicating the study using different types of medical emergencies.
• D) reanalyzing the data from the original study.
• E) replicating the study using different types of emergencies.

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Definitions:

Conditioning

The process of training or developing physical fitness through exercises that improve strength, endurance, flexibility, or coordination.

Warm-up

A series of low-intensity exercises performed before engaging in physical activity to prepare the body and reduce the risk of injury.

Cool-down

A set of low-intensity exercises performed after more intense activity to help the body transition to a resting or near-resting state.

Progressive Overload

A principle of physical training that involves progressively increasing the amount of stress on the body to stimulate muscle growth, strength, and endurance.