Recall that Latan and Darley (1968) studied bystander intervention by having participants overhear a seizure while they were speaking on headphones with another discussant.
Assuming that the participants believed that the seizure was real and felt anxious and confused about whether and how to help when they heard the seizure, Latan and Darley's (1968) experiment was
a. low in psychological realism.
b. high in psychological realism.
c. low in internal validity.
d. invalid.
Question 2
No matter how artificial an experimental situation may at first appear, if participants think, feel, or react the way that people in a real-life situation would react, the experiment has
a. high psychological realism.
b. high internal validity.
c. low psychological realism.
d. low demand characteristics.
The seven traits that Mendel studied.
Extinction and immigration of bird species on the California Channel Islands between 1917 and 1968 (
Chimpanzees are studied more than bonobos.
The secular trend in growth as measured in Swedish (a) girls and (b) boys between 1883 and 1968.
Emergency Intervention
Participants in the regatta at Genoa, Italy, are dwarfed by Paul Allen’s yacht.