PSYC10004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Ontogeny, Developmental Psychology
14 Jun 2018
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MBB Week 4; Lecture 10 Notes
Social Psychology 1
- “the descent of man”
- evolution of man - genetic materials that ancestors have passed on
- phylogenetic time: evolutionary psychology
- how humans originated
- ontogenetic time: developmental psychology
- interactions w people, need relationships to survive
- human sociality; adult relationships with each other
- how we see other people and ourselves, interactions within groups, “societal questions”
- the case of Kitty Genovese (1964)
- was returning home from work
- got stabbed by William Moseley, dragged herself to the apartment, and got killed
- Moseley was caught, sentenced and imprisoned (1967)
- Martin Gansberg - author of article from The New York Times - “38 who saw murder didn’t
call the police.”
- why didn’t people intervene? (bystander inaction)
- location: NYC - large city
- urbanisation & callousness? no personal relations to the stranger
- sheer presence of others - bystander effect
- Latané & Darley, 1982
- bystander picks up cues about what is happening & how to react from it from other bystanders
- conformity
- Smoke Situation
- hypothesis: “the presence of others would prevent you from acting in an emergency”
- controlled conditions (alone vs with people) = in small emergency situation
- people in alone condition - 70% reported the smoke compared to the 3-person condition
(40%) - alternative explanation: fear?
- The Fallen Woman
- survey for game and puzzle preferences
- room divided into two, experimenter in one half, divided with easy to pull curtain
- sounds like woman climbs ladder and falls w crash and scream, seems injured
- alone vs two condition
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Document Summary
Evolution of man - genetic materials that ancestors have passed on. Interactions w people, need relationships to survive. Human sociality; adult relationships with each other. How we see other people and ourselves, interactions within groups, societal questions . Got stabbed by william moseley, dragged herself to the apartment, and got killed. Moseley was caught, sentenced and imprisoned (1967) Martin gansberg - author of article from the new york times - 38 who saw murder didn"t call the police. Urbanisation & callousness? no personal relations to the stranger. Sheer presence of others - bystander effect. Bystander picks up cues about what is happening & how to react from it from other bystanders. Hypothesis: the presence of others would prevent you from acting in an emergency . Controlled conditions (alone vs with people) = in small emergency situation. Room divided into two, experimenter in one half, divided with easy to pull curtain.
