Richard Is Having a Seizure in the Back of the Classroom

question 94

True/False

Richard is having a seizure in the back of the classroom. His classmates look around at each other, unsure of how to react. As they watch each other doing nothing, they shrug and go about packing up for the next class, assuming that nothing must be wrong because no one else reacted as if it were an emergency. Their reactions illustrate diffusion of responsibility.

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