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Morrison shows how Sethe had dehumanizing experiences during her years of slavery. Even in freedom, Sethe was reminded of her past which affected her decisions and destroyed her identity. In contrast, in Eric Bress and J. Mackye Grubber’s The Butterfly Effect (2004), Evan witnessed and participated in traumatizing events in his childhood. When he discovers his ability to time travel, Evan alters his past only to find out it damaged his future. Despite bearing substantial differences, both…

took a longer reaction time because it conflicted with our cognitive processing. This experiment was widely interpreted on Stroop, Windes, and Hintzman, D. L., Carre, F. A., Eskridge, V. L., Owens, A. M., Shaff, S. S., Sparks, M. E. Numerical Stroop Effect Response: What you see is not Always What you Guess…

The greenhouse effect is a naturally occurring process within our atmosphere, it aids in heating the earths surface and atmosphere. The greenhouse affect is caused by the fact that certain atmospheric gases, gases such as carbon dioxide, water vapour and methane are able to change the energy balance of the planet by absorbing long wave radiation emitted from earth’s surface. Without the greenhouse affect our earth would be a chilly -18°C in comparison to the present average temperature of 15°C.…

Many people also believe that when people are around, the bully will choose not to attack. This is not true, however, because there is a phenomenon called “the Bystander Effect”. This phenomenon states that “greater the number of people present, the less likely people are to help a person in distress” (“What is the Bystander Effect?” 1). Knowing this, it would show that the bully will more likely attack when many people surround them because less people will retaliate. Along with believing…

It is important to understand why sometimes we fail to help in emergencies. The ‘bystander effect’, is a concept that as the group size increases, the less likely a person will intervene (Levine & Cassidy, 2009). The main reasons for this occurring include the notion of audience inhibition, social influence and diffusion of responsibility (Levine & Cassidy, 2009). Research by Darley, Lewis and Teger (1978) demonstrated that group size may not be the only significant factor in helping in an…

The Bystander Effect On March 13, 1964, a woman named Kitty Genovese was murdered in front of her apartment complex in New York. Multiple bystanders witnessed parts of the event but failed to offer any assistance (Latane and Darley). Later, exaggerated media accounts after her death generated wide spread outrage and speculation. This incident led to the first modern research conducted by Latane and Darley on the root causes of what is now known today as the “bystander effect”. Phycologists now…

The bystander effect, otherwise known as bystander apathy, is a psychological occurrence of a traumatic experience. This can happen to individuals who are a part of a crowd that witnesses a disturbing event where no one responds to help. There have been many stories and cases of these kinds of scenarios. Darley, J.M., and Latane, B researched the bystander effect and published an article entitled “To Help or not to Help.” This study brought to light the reasons why individuals do not jump to…

studying will more than likely listen to their preferred genre, and this may or may not impact their studying. Attention and the effects of listening to music while studying have been intensely researched over recent years. Researchers and psychologists have conducted several studies to determine whether listening to music while studying had a negative or positive effect on students’ cognitive performances. The various genres affect the brain in different ways, which also depends on the person’s…

Directed attention is a mechanism used by humans every day to manage their thoughts by inhibiting a stimuli in order to say or do something else; this tendency is also known as the Stroop effect. To test the effects of the Stroop task we conducted an experiment to examine if words on silhouettes have an effect on the reaction time of verbalizing the names of the animals on a silhouette sheet. We hypothesized that reaction time would be higher in the no label condition than the incongruent label…

Sexual Assault—Bystander Effect and Bystander Intervene Introduction In the wake of ubiquitous technologies that surrounds people, such as convenient smartphone and social media on the internet, snapping a picture or filming a video and then share them on the internet become a universal phenomenon, especially in young people. However, excessive information on the internet gives users an illusion that mishaps, melancholies, and even fatal events seen on the internet are just common and normal,…