Name: Jacob Talley RC: 4 APA Reference: Valentine‚ E. (1980) The Attenuating Influence of Gaze Upon the Bystander Intervention Effect. Journal of Social Psychology‚ 111‚ 197-203. Introduction – This study researched the implications of the bystander effect when both gaze and no gaze methods were used. It tested this with woman to woman interaction only. The belief was that when gaze was held between the subject needing assistance and a random subject the expressed desire to help
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Theatre‚ with his Epic Theatre. We narrowed our discussion to the most important part of Epic Theatre: Brecht’s alienation effect (also known as the distancing effect). Today‚ we’ll expand our understanding of the alienation effect with some new ideas and examples. We’ll also explore the idea of a double (or a split-self). We focused on how Brecht achieved his alienation effect in these ways: #1: MASKS to create intellectual distance from characters (instead of emotional connection with them.)
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Stroop Effect 4/12/2011 CAL STATE FULLERTON Abstract This research is designed to study attention and automatic processing of the brain by replicating the Stroop effect experiments that was conducted before. The participants included 12 female and 6 male students from Cal State Fullerton. Coglab‚ a virtual lab‚ was used to conduct the experiment. On each trial they were shown a word (RED‚ GREEN
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The Mozart Effect Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major‚ a piece that tells of grandeur and playfulness‚ camaraderie and love. The dueling pianos play in and out of cadences bringing the listener to the time of Mozart; with Victorian gowns‚ men in wigs and food and games through an evening of gossip‚ laughter‚ and flirtatious behaviors. As humans‚ we are always looking for ways to improve out intelligence‚ even if for a small period of time. Music genius‚ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Doppler Effect The Doppler effect (or Doppler shift)‚ named after Austrian physicist Christian Doppler who proposed it in 1842‚ is the change in frequency of a wave for an observer moving relative to the source of the wave. It is commonly heard when a vehicle sounding a siren or horn approaches‚ passes‚ and recedes from an observer. The received frequency is higher (compared to the emitted frequency) during the approach‚ it is identical at the instant of passing by‚ and it is lower during the
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Attention : The effects of automatic and controlled processing Abstract The theory of attention was focused on within the experiment‚ using a modified version of the Stroop effect. The stroop effect suggests that automatic and controlled processing can conflict with each other making it difficult to focus on a particular task. Participants were asked to look at two sets of stimuli which contained words written in coloured ink‚ colour related words and neutral words. Participants were asked
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Bystander Apathy and Effect The bystander apathy‚ or bystander effect is a social psychological phenomenon that happens when somebody doesn’t offer help to a victim when other people are present. There is an inverse relationship between the number of bystanders and the probability of help. This implies that the likelihood of receiving help reduces with an increase in the number of bystanders. There are several explanations for the bystander effect. Although social psychologists have focused on two
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pedestrians walk past the suffering man in such a location‚ they would lose their individual responsibility and tend to think that others present would take action. Hence‚ this social psychological phenomenon could be referred to as the bystander effect. Bystander effect was confirmed after the murder of Kitty Genovese in 1964. Kitty was raped and stabbed to death in two different attacks as she was on the way back home from her work. According to several media accounts‚ the assault lasted for nearly an hour
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Bystander Effect Our hypothesis was disproved in that the bystander effect made it less likely for strangers to help out. The bystander effect is defined as the following: the more people present when help is needed‚ the less likely any of them is provide assistance. At first glance‚ we assumed that it would be the opposite effect. We automatically were led to believe that there was a safety in number. However‚ while testing out our theory‚ the hypothesis turned out to be false. The more people
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One of the main premises in Nicholas Carr’s book “The Shallows: What the Internet is doing to our brains” is the Flynn effect. The Flynn effect refers to the steady increase in IQ scores the past century. People think the Flynn effect occurred because our technology advanced. The Flynn effect however was in motion before the internet became a mainstream‚ even before the world wars. Also because of the rapid increase in IQ scores the past century graphs show that the Fathers of America would have
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