Recall That Latané and Darley (1968) Studied Bystander Intervention by Having

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Multiple Choice

Recall that Latané and Darley (1968) studied bystander intervention by having participants overhear a seizure while they were speaking on headphones with another discussant. Assuming that the participants believed that the seizure was real and felt anxious and confused about whether and how to help when they heard the seizure, Latané and Darley's (1968) experiment was __________.

• A) low in psychological realism
• B) high in psychological realism
• C) low in internal validity
• D) invalid

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