Gemma Is Alone When She Sees a Person Who Appears

question 271

Multiple Choice

Gemma is alone when she sees a person who appears to be drowning in the ocean. She wants to help, but questions whether her swimming ability will allow her to rescue the individual. It appears that Gemma is stuck at the __________ step of Darley and Latané's (1968) model of bystander intervention.

• A) noticing
• B) defining an emergency
• C) taking responsibility
• D) planning a course of action

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Definitions:

Interference Theory

A theory suggesting that the ability to remember information is affected by competing information, either before or after the learning process.

Proactive Interference

The difficulty in learning new information because of the interference from existing, previously learned information.

Retroactive Interference

A phenomenon where newly acquired information interferes with the recall of previously learned information.

New Plays

Fresh or original theatrical productions not previously performed.