Psychology 3720F/G Lecture 3: Psych 3720 Jan 22

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 3720F/G
• Professor: Haynes

Document Summary

Latane and darley: decision tree model: did several experiments that tested different aspects of emergency helping, assumed that there are five obstacles that have to be overcome for a person to actually offer help: Interpret the event as an emergency: notice the event, accepting personal responsibility, deciding how to help, deciding how to implement your help. Piliavin et al: arousal: cost reward model, helping is more likely to occur when rewards outweigh costs, what people end up doing depends on what he refers to bystander calculus computation of the costs and rewards. It was staged so someone would be standing off to the side, who notices something was dropped: percent of people who helped, mitten: 47, condoms: 17% Identifiable victim effect tendency for people to eagerly help a single victim, while ignoring the plight of victims of a mass tragedy: possible explanations, distance, number induced apathy.