Research Method II(6 Questions)

Study: You collect data for a study that looks at helping
behavior among a group of participants similar to a study by Latane and Darley,
who looked at the bystander effect. After completing their informed consent
forms, participants are placed in rooms by themselves and given a headset that
they can use to both hear and speak to other participants. Unknown to the real
participant, all other participants are confederates, or researchers pretending
to be participants. The researcher instructs the real participant that they are
going to have a conversation about making friends with the other “participants”,
and that they should determine through their conversation what the best steps
are in making friends. Some of the real participants think that they are only
talking to one other participant (Alone condition). Some real participants
think they are talking to two other participants (+2 condition). A final set of
real participants think they are talking to three other participants (+3
condition). In all conditions, one of the confederate goes into what sounds
like a seizure. The researcher then measures two things. First, does the real
participant try to help the seizing confederate? Second, after explaining that
the seizing participant was actually not in any danger, the researchers asked
the participant how much responsibility they felt to help the seizing person (0
= no responsibility to 10 = full responsibility). Like the original study
authors, you think that real participants will be more likely to help and think
they are more responsible for providing help when they think they are alone in
the conversation.