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1. Victor Urud
Psychology
Prosocial Behaviour Lab Summary
The purpose of this experiment is to determine whether people who witnessed
another person in need of help, would react in a positive way by helping them, or would just
walk off as if nothing happens.My hypothesis is that men would be the ones more helpful
than women. In this experiment, I would like to determine whether people who witnessed
another person in need of help, would choose to help or not to. A box of writing utensils is
needed in this experiment, where a ‘victim’ of a situation would drop the box of writing
utensils and ‘test subjects’ that would wonder around and come across this victim, and their
decision would be recorded of where they decide to help the victim or not. Cameras are set
up around to record every action of the test subject. This method of dropping the box of
writing utensils could happen anywhere in the real world and is a feasible method as it is a
situation that is most likely to occur in areas such as school.
During the conduction of the experiment, an observation I made is that one test
subject hesitated to help a victim when the victim was seen already being helped by another
person. By just having a person around, it affects another person’s decision to help another
in distress, thus the bystander effect. An observation I made, when in a group, people may
have been busy up in a conversation with each other or may not have wanted to be the
person to break the conversation, no one from the group helped the victim. Two women
had similar behaviours when experimented upon, they both saw the victim in distress, but
continued on walking slowly, though they acknowledge the person in distress. What I
noticed throughout the whole experiment is that men did not just helped, they intended on
helping with a smile on their face.

2. Victor Urud
Psychology
According to this graph, we could see that the number of men who helped versus the
number of women, who helped, goes more towards men though the numbers are close. We could
see that men are more likely to help, rather than women.
To my conclusion, men had the better number on helping rather than the opposite gender.
But there was one factor that prevented both genders from helping the victim, the Bystander Effect,
when not alone in the same situation. The Bystander Effect is where the more number of people in
an area, the less likely that people are to help another in distress. The Bystander Effect plays a big
role on whether a person would help another in distress. Though this may not connect on the
gender roles, it affects the data of where a person may help while being in the Bystander Effect.
Looking at the chart graph, we could see that men are more likely to help rather than women. The
numbers may be close, but it is through the observations that tilted the result of the experiment.