Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Murder Of Kitty Genovese, Junk Food, Frequency Distribution

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

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Skepticism: show me your evidence might there be a better explanation . Open-mindedness: recognizing that the results and findings may go against your instincts. Rather than apathy, perhaps it was diffusion of responsibility . Created an if-then question: in an emergency, if multiple bystanders are present, then the likelihood that any one bystander will intervene is reduced. Designed an experiment to test their hypothesis. How did they do it: recording of someone yelling for help, the one-on-one responded more quickly than the larger groups. Factors that can influence the bystanders social status, age, gender, blood or noticeable injury, being witness to the event (a fall) etc. Variable: anything that can be measured: behaviours, events, characteristics. Relationship between variables is shown by a statistic, the correlation coefficient (r) R can be between -1. o and +1. 0. Value tells us the strength of the relationship. Close to +1. 0 or -1. 0: very strong relationship. Sign tells us the direction of the relationship.