AICE PSYCH AS: Social Approach Study Guide Paper 2
1.a. Situational explanations of behavior refer to how the situation determines the behavior more than the natural disposition of the person. In the subway Samaritan study, the situations drunk and ill conditions an how each affected how many people helped. In the Milgram study, power, place, and formality are used to influence behavior against better judgement.
1. b. Both studies gathered qualitative and quantitative data. In the Piliavin et al study, quantitative data included the number of helpers at a given time and qualitative data included comments. In the obedience study, the quantitative data is the amount of people who stopped at which voltages and the qualitative data includes the