Is the Piliavin study reliable?

Reliability: Because of methodological problems, there were more cane trials than drunk trials and more white victims than black victims. Therefore the results from each group’s trials cannot always be reliably compared with each other.

What did Piliavin conclude?

Conclusions: Piliavin proposes the arousal: cost-reward model, a way of predicting the helping behaviour in emergency situations. Arousal is reduced by helping (directly/indirectly), leaving the scene of the emergency or rejecting the victim as undeserving of help.

What was the quantitative data in Piliavin study?

1) Quantitative data of number of victims who were helped and the percentage of the sex of the first helper – good as allows comparison between the drunk and cane conditions. 2) Qualitative data of quotes from passengers – helped to explain some of the quantitative data, especially that 90% of first helpers were male.

What is one strength of the Piliavin study?

A strength of the sample is that it is fairly big and therefore would be representative of people who used the subway in NYC, e.g. 4450 participants were estimated to have been involved.

What was the aim of the Piliavin study?

Aim. This study was designed to investigate how a group of people would react if they saw a person who collapsed on a train. Specifically, they wanted to investigate: Would an ill person get more help than a drunk person? (the type of victim)?

Why did Piliavin conduct his study?

This study was designed to investigate how a group of people would react if they saw a person who collapsed on a train. Specifically, they wanted to investigate: Would an ill person get more help than a drunk person? (the type of victim)?

How does Lee et al link to moral development?

Lee et al (1997) Evaluations of lying and truth-telling Developmental A cross-cultural study which challenges Kohlberg’s suggestion that the development of moral thinking is unaffected by the culture a child grows up in. Lee et al show the impact of culture through Chinese and Canadian children’s evaluations of lying …

How does Piliavin link to social area?

How does Piliavin link to the social area? because they were investigating the impact that other people have on our behaviour and whether the likelihood of someone helping out in an emergency situation is increased or decreased by the known visible presence of other witnesses to the event.

What is Lee et al?

Chinese and Canadian Children’s Evaluations of Lying and Truth Telling: Similarities and Differences in the Context of Pro and Anti-Social Behaviours.

How is Piliavin reductionist?

Piliavin: Reductionist: The cost-reward matrix can be seen as a quite reductionist explanation for why participants helped/didn’t help as it suggests that helping/not helping is a result of trying to escape heightened feelings of arousal which are uncomfortable and in order to do that we either help or move away from …

How does Lee et al link to developmental area?

What sampling method did Kohlberg use?

Method: Kohlberg conducted a longitudinal study over a period of 12 years. During this time in order to test moral reasoning he gave 75 young American males a series of hypothetical and philosophical moral dilemmas in the form of short stories.

Is Piliavin reductionist or holistic?

How does Piliavin study link to the social area?

How does Casey et al link to the key theme?

Casey links to the key theme because she simply explored the role of two brain regions (inferior frontal gyrus and ventral striatum) and their role in our ability to resist temptation. The VS is responsible for rewards and so is overactive in those who could not resist temptation to press the key to a happy face.

What type of research did Kohlberg use?

Kohlberg relied on a method of vignettes. He wrote up scenarios that involved a moral dilemma and presented them to his research subjects. He asked people what they would do in each situation and then asked them to explain the reasoning behind their decision.