Reference no: EM133602935
Based on this article:
Young Children Show the Bystander Effect in Helping Situations by Maria Plötner, Harriet Over, Malinda Carpenter, and Michael Tomasello
a. Identify the aims of this study.
b. Explain why the researchers felt they needed to conduct this study by describing the two problems with previous research that the article mentioned.
c. Identify the predictor variable. State the number of levels/conditions and identify what the levels/conditions are. Identify the outcome variable.
d. Identify the scale of measurement of the predictor variable and explain why.
e. Identify the scale of measurement of the outcome variable and explain why.
f. Identify if this is an experimental or observational study. Explain why in the context of this study to support your answer.
g. Identify if this is a between-subjects or within-subjects design. Explain why in the context of this study to support your answer.
Identify the five possible explanations for the bystander effect that the authors mentioned in this article. Discuss how the researchers tried to rule the explanations out. Specifically, for each explanation, describe the logic and whether the finding supported the logic. Here's a generic example: "If X was the explanation for the bystander effect, then we should see Y because Z. However, Y did not happen in the study. Instead, W happened. Therefore, we can rule out X as the reason for the bystander effect."
i. Identify three other aspects the researchers controlled for in their study and explain why it was important for them to control those aspects.
j. Identify three possible ethical concerns in this study and discuss why they were concerns. Describe how the researchers dealt with them.