Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Behavioral Neuroscience, Capgras Delusion, Oedipus Complex

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Elizabeth Campbell

Document Summary

Recognizing that the results and findings may go against your instincts. Kitty genovese murder in ny, witnessed by 38 bystanders (none called police) (example from text, why would nobody call police? was there something more going on there? blamed on bystander apathy darley and latane (psychologists) example: Rather than apathy, maybe it was diffusion of responsibility (there were so many people, felt someone else had already reported, not that they didnt care. Created if-then question: if an emergency, if multiple bystanders are present. Then the likelihood that any one bystander will intervene is reduced (going against their own instinct, as numbers of witnesses go up reports go down) To test this, experiment was conducted: one-on-one phone call vs group call, and one person started to have a seizure results in one-on-one convos reporting and calling for help/emergency right away. When a group feels like a victim is similar to them or they can relate to victim.