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CAIE A-Level Psychology Piliavin Subway Samaritans

Practise recalling Piliavin's victim, model and observer procedure, then using comparative helping evidence to explain bystander behaviour and evaluate the field study.

Syllabus
2028–2030
Course
Psychology 9990
Level
AS

Exam points

  • describe the four-person team's positions and actions in sequence before the staged collapse
  • state helping evidence as a comparison involving victim condition, group size, latency or helper race
  • apply diffusion or cost-reward ideas to the victim's condition before evaluating deception and validity

Piliavin et al. (subway Samaritans) question 1

[Maximum number: 2]

From the study by Piliavin et al. (subway Samaritans):

Identify two features of one of the victims.

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