In the naturalistic experiment in which a "victim" (actor) "passed out" in a subway car, holding a cane in some trials and holding a liquor bottle in others. The results of this experiment showed that the people on the subway
a. helped in both cases to the same degree.
b. provided more help when the man carried the cane than the liquor bottle.
c. provided more help when the man carried the liquor bottle than the cane.
d. showed almost complete bystander apathy, helping neither man regardless of what he was holding.
B
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extra support and monitoring, as well as transportation to a job. Her thinking is still somewhat unusual, she is still pretty quiet, and she often has trouble paying attention to directions, but her psychotic symptoms are much improved. When Marnie lives at the group home, she is in the phase of schizophrenia. a. prodromal b. active c. residual d. psychotic
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