The tendency for an individual's helpfulness in an emergency to decrease as the number of bystanders increases is called ______

a. the risky shift phenomenon

b. groupthink

c. the bystander effect

d. the inertia paradigm


C

Psychology

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a. 25% 30% = 7.5% b. 25% + 30 % = 55% c. 45% d. We cannot tell from the information that is presented.

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Many scholars argue with the idea of two cultures in gender-based communications because there is a need to look at the more complex and important communication of

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The research method in which the researcher becomes personally involved in community life, while keeping careful, systematic notes and seeking to form conceptual understanding of community phenomena

a. focus groups b. qualitative interviewing c. participant observation d. experimental social innovation

Psychology