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How did Latan and Darley (1968) vary the number of bystanders in their experimental study of the effects of the number of witnesses exposed to an emergency?
 
  a. They allowed participants to choose whether to participate in a group or in a one-on-one discussion.
  b. They asked participants whether they would like to be engaged in a discussion with one, three, or six other individuals.
  c. Participants who arrived first were assigned to a large group condition, and those who arrived later were assigned to a small group condition.
  d. They randomly assigned participants to one of three conditions: several witnesses, few witnesses, or one witness.

Question 2

Participants in the Latan and Darley (1968) experimental study of the effects of group size on intervention in an emergency utilized
 
  a. audiotapes of the Kitty Genovese murder.
  b. a staged assault on the experimenter.
  c. an audiotaped seizure.
  d. participants' reports of what they would do in an emergency.



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: D

Answer to Question 2

Answer: C



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