Lesson 3.2.1.3.2

3.2.1.3.2 Dispositional factors: similarity to victim and expertise Quiz: AQA Psychology, Unit 5

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The 20 questions

  1. What effect does increased victim similarity have on helping behaviour?

    • Decreases helping
    • Stops helping
    • No effect
    • Increases helping

  2. Which dispositional factor involves knowledge or skill that makes a helper more able to act?

    • Presence of others
    • Similarity
    • Cost of helping
    • Expertise

  3. Why might a medical student be more likely to help at an accident?

    • Social loafing
    • Diffusion of responsibility
    • Higher expertise
    • Audience inhibition

  4. Which term describes sharing demographic traits with a victim in bystander research?

    • Diffusion of responsibility
    • Victim similarity
    • Audience inhibition
    • Expertise

  5. Which factor is demonstrated when someone helps a stranger sharing their nationality?

    • Victim similarity
    • Audience inhibition
    • Diffusion of responsibility
    • Expertise

  6. What is a main criticism of explaining bystander intervention purely through expertise?

    • Ignores empathy
    • Ignores time limits
    • Ignores group size
    • Ignores lighting

  7. Which specific type of expertise most helps a bystander during a road accident?

    • First aid training
    • Legal knowledge
    • Sports coaching
    • Psychology degree

  8. A nurse helps quickly at a fall. Which key factor best explains this response?

    • Social loafing
    • Expertise
    • Diffusion of responsibility
    • Audience inhibition

  9. A victim who looks like a helper's relative is more likely to receive help. Which factor?

    • Cost of helping
    • Diffusion of responsibility
    • Expertise
    • Similarity to victim

  10. What does research into victim similarity predict about bystander intervention?

    • More outgroup help
    • More ingroup help
    • No effect on help
    • Random helping rates

  11. How does possessing relevant expertise affect a trained bystander in an emergency?

    • Increases ambiguity
    • Causes bystander effect
    • Reduces perceived cost
    • Increases panic

  12. Which combination of factors would most reduce the likelihood of bystander intervention?

    • Unskilled and connected
    • Unskilled and disconnected
    • Skilled and disconnected
    • Skilled and connected

  13. Why is claiming helping behaviour depends solely on dispositional factors incorrect?

    • Personality matters most
    • Mood has zero effect
    • Genetics determine empathy
    • It ignores situational factors

  14. Why might similarity to the victim increase helping from a social identity perspective?

    • Diffusion of responsibility
    • Audience inhibition
    • Shared social identity
    • Evaluation apprehension

  15. Which two dispositional factors are specified for bystander intervention in AQA Psychology?

    • Mood and personality
    • Similarity and expertise
    • Gender and age
    • Location and time

  16. A researcher manipulates whether the helper has expertise. What type of variable is expertise in this study?

    • A dependent variable
    • A control variable
    • An independent variable
    • A confounding variable

  17. Which experimental design best separates the effects of similarity and expertise on helping?

    • Correlational questionnaire
    • Independent variable manipulation
    • Case study review
    • Natural observation

  18. Which situational factor best shows that perceived similarity increases helping?

    • Higher status
    • Shared hobby
    • Different age
    • Foreign accent

  19. Why is it difficult to prove that expertise alone causes increased helping?

    • Confounding personality traits
    • Random participant attrition
    • Lab environment bias
    • Standardised testing errors

  20. What effect does having relevant expertise generally have on bystander intervention?

    • Stops all intervention
    • Decreases helping behaviour
    • Causes bystander apathy
    • Increases helping behaviour

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