Essays on Behaviorism

Imagine that you are about to cross the street, an old man in front of you suddenly starts to cross the road without checking the crossing lights. Then you see a massive truck heading in the direction of the old man. He continues to walk...

The Bystander Effect is a Social Psychological claim that most individuals are less likely to help a victim when other people are present. This creates almost a type of fear in most because they are scared of what people would think or say because of...

Kitty Genovese, a 28-year-old woman, was murdered in front of her home on March 13, 1964. A New York Times article claimed that 38 witnessed or heard the crime, but no one responded or aided her to help. This event inspired social psychologists John M....

The basis of this paper is to uncover the imprint on how social cognitive theory, behaviorism, and conformity differ in roles, which explains the reasoning behind why people don’t help another person in obvious distress. Various studies and surveys have been conducted to determine the...

“I didn’t want to get involved”, “We thought it was a lover’s quarrel”, “I was tired”, “I went back to sleep”, “Frankly, we were afraid”, these were the direct quotes of bystanders in response to the cries for help that came from Catherine “Kitty” Genovese....

According to RAINN, the nation’s largest sexual assault prevention organization, a bystander is a “person who is present when an event takes place but isn’t directly involved. Bystanders might be present when sexual assault or abuse occurs — or they could witness the circumstances that...

Each one of us has some sort of inner drive to help others. The motivations and strengths of these drives can vary. This paper evaluates if people are more or less willing to help someone in situations when their actions are observed. It analyzes several...

The story about Kitty Genovese was a sad, unfortunate, preventable event and far too many other people go through the same situations, occurring on daily basis, leaving behind the same result. Law enforcement all ways reminds the citizens of any society to speak up and...

Bystander intervention decreases an individual’s willingness to intervene and help others. The most notorious case which portrays this was the muder of Kitty Genovese, 38 residents witnessed the crime however none of which intervened. It has been proposed that bystanders rationalised their inaction by assuming...

On September 16, 2019, a 16-year-old high school student, Khaseen Morris, was stabbed in the chest and bleed to death during an after-school fight with several other students in the parking lot of a shopping centre in New York. 50 to 70 students were at...