Imagine that you participate in an experiment where you are in a private cubicle from which you communicate with other students over an intercom. Suddenly you hear over the intercom that a student is starting to have an epileptic seizure.
According to research, you will be most likely to leave your cubicle and try to help if
A) you are the only person who can hear the seizure.
B) there is one other person connected to the intercom who can hear the seizure.
C) there are four other people connected to the intercom who can hear the seizure.
D) you don't know the person who is having the seizure.
Question 2
The automatic processing of social information involves ________.
A) a relatively quick, effortless way of reaching conclusions
B) combining affective state with schemas and cognitions
C) encoding of new social information for later retrieval
D) information overload and counterfactual thinking
E) effortful cognitions, heuristics, and inferences
The experiment of Plaxton and his colleagues demonstrated that plants can alter their metabolism in
The Meselson-Stahl Experiment p1
The Redi experiment.
Elements of an Experiment
Counterbalancing in the Predator Experiment
Private practice setting.