Facilitated diffusion

Everybody wants to be a hero, and everyone has what it takes. No, I’m not talking about some ability to grow and become highly skilled or knowledgeable, I’m talking about the ability to obey one’s genes. In horror movies, I find myself constantly wondering why the victim would scream when the killer is right around the corner. Shouldn’t their body, their subconscious, know that it has a better chance of survival if it doesn’t scream? We can thank our species’ progression for that. Over the…

influences the way people react when they see other people reacting. Why do individuals not offer any means of help to a victim when others are present and what are the negative influences by social interactions due to conformity as well as the diffusion of responsibility in a certain situation? Empathy…

Stanley Milgram was a psychologist professor and in June 1961 he wanted to test people’s obedience to authority. John Darley and Bibb Latane were psychologists who wanted to know why people ignore others cries for help. Both these experiments tie into “Lord of the Flies” by William Goulding in my opinion. And both of the experiments are alike and different in many ways. Milgram wanted to test how well we react to leaders, even if they tell us to do bad things that will hurt others. And Darley…

As stated in the introduction the hypothesis for this experiment was that the solution beginning with the higher concentration of KMnO4 and placed in water with the warmer temperature will diffuse through the artificial membrane quicker than the solutions beginning with the already diluted solutions and placed in water at a cooler temperature. This occurring because all of the solutions are trying to diffuse to where it is less concentrated because they are eager to diffuse down its…

It was 3 AM in New York City and this is the time when the brutal killing of Kitty Genovese. I believe that if her neighbors did not just watch and listen to her cries but if they have called the police i believe that kitty genovese would have been still alive. Kitty Genovese was murdered by a crazed man by the name of Winston Moseley. They say it took 2.5 Minutes for the police to get their and the murder had happen in a time span of 30 minutes and in those 30 minutes the killer had been drawn…

A video was posted by MoeAndET on YouTube in 2014 that went viral and caused quite a bit of a stir. It was a social experiment dealing with public domestic violence. When the male actor was publicly abusing the female actress, many male bystanders stepped in to stop the abuse; some even got into physical fights with the actor in order to protect the actress’s honor. However, when the roles were reversed, not one bystander stepped in to help the actor. He was being actively abused, even as far…

the crime. None tried to stop it. No one even called 911 (biography.com). How could so many people see something so heinous and do nothing? Psychologist have a couple of explanations for how it might have happened, diffusion of responsibility and group ignorance. Diffusion of responsibility is a…

In a classical study conducted by Darley & Latane (1968), the researchers man focus was on bystanders’ response. What causes bystanders to remain silent and/ or speak out about what they witnessed. Using a sample of college students, researchers performed a study under the notion that they were anonymously gathering information on the college experience of students. The real goal of the study was to determine how bystanders react when put into a situation with someone needing help. The…

Violence and crime in this world now a days are through the roof of the tallest building to stand on this earth. People are scared to help as in bystanders to the crime being committed. Some might be nervous to help the victim or victims because of law enforcement retaliation, or just do not want to help. Bystanders should have the right to safely intervene in crimes they see! For the first example, a woman was gang raped on spring break in Panama City at the beach (AL 04). According to…

The usage of Diffusion of Innovations theory can capture the attention of the asset-light generation by using what is a current interest for our society. For instance, anticipating the release of the next iPhone by Apple or receiving update news on a recent crisis that may have happen around the world. Author or Diffusion of Theory, explains how the how a new idea is communicated through channels so that society is able to receive the information more conveniently from multiple sources. As an…