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You are an assistant professor of Psychology here Hawaian travel company wants to demonsurae le who are long term residents here have more “Aloha" spirit than those who have recently arrived from other areas of the country or the world. They have given you a large grant to study this. You decide to use the basic method pioneered by Darly and Latane on the tendencies of people to come to the aid of others who are perceived to be in trouble to rescue them. many ways you can find This exercise is to determine how to alter your methods to make the results support your ideas. Form a group of 3-4 and plan the study. One of you will be the PI and the rest RAs. The basic method is to ask subjects to come to do a study on something that does not inform them of the real purpose, say on physical attraction. (Of course, following the models of human subjects research, you will be required to debrief them later.) While they are waiting to be "interviewed" they will hear one of your research assistants (RA) pretending to be in distress. Your hypothesis is that Hawai'i born and raised subjects are more likely exhibit rescuing behavior Develop details for the study including (1) operational definitions of the variables: "Resident of Hawai'i, "rescuing behavior" and anything else that might add interest. (2) Population and sample, to include sample selection. (3) Procedures for measurement of the dependent variable The exercise is to see how you might rig the study to support your hypothesis. (Ignore anything having to do with statistical analysis for this exercise.) Try to develop five ways of being fraudulent. Also think of ways you might get caught.
Explanation / Answer
Operational Definitions:
Native Hawaiins- any individual who is a descendant of an aborginal and lives in the state of hawaii.
Long term Residents of Hawaii- those who have lived in hawaii for 5 years or more.
Recent residents- those have lived in Hawaii for 5 years or less.
Rescuing behaviour- ability to help someone in need when percieved to be in need of help.
Bystander effect- presence of other individuals lowers the ability to help in an emergency situation by others.
Methods
Study 1 find a linear correlation between number of people imagined and helping behaviour.
Sample- take 100 subjects
50 should be long term residents
50 should be recent residents
Procedure- give out self designed questionnaires on helping behaviour.
Results-A content analysis can later be carried out
Study 2
Conduct an experimental study between both the groups (long term residents and recent residents) to test the bystander effect.
One,by priming them with a group of strangers in a helping situation to test the bystander effect/ apathy.
Two, by not priming them with a group of strangers.
Sample- 100 ( 50 long term residents and 50 recent residents)
Procedure- introduce 2 different scenarios that require helping.
5 ways of being fraudulent
- speak with the long term residents subject to help in both the scenarios
- choose wrong subjects for the recent residents
-choose knows altruistic individuals for the study
-ask the recent residents group to not react much when primed with strangers for study 2
- tweak the answers in questionnairs.
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