PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Pluralistic Ignorance, Extraversion And Introversion

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Aviva Goldberg

Document Summary

Status a persons rank or position within society. Extroversion a personality type that describes people who look to the outside world for entertainment. Bystanders put in a situation where a victim needed help. They uses a train an 2 male confederates. They found the blind" victim received the most help and was helped immediately regardless of race. The drunk victim was helped 50% of the time before the helper" stepped in and more likely to be help by a person of the same race. The male victim was more likely to be helped by men than women and the number of bystanders had little effect on the rate of helping (no diffusion of responsibility). Conclusion was that the cost of helping affected bystander behaviour i. e. would they get hurt helping or not. (no pluralistic ignorance) Introversion a personality type that describes people who are content with their own company.