Read the item and then answer this: Outline what is meant by the term bystander behaviour. Referring to the conversation above, identify one factor that can influence bystander behaviour and suggest how it would have influenced bystander behaviour...

...in this situation.Item:Archie: “On the way into work today, I saw a lady collapse. She fell over outside the coffee shop on the high street.” Jordan: “That’s terrible. Did you stop to help her?”(4 marks)The term 'bystander intervention' refers to the likelihood of a person to intervene in an emergency situation in which they are a bystander and not a participant. The trend shown most often by research is that the more bystanders there are in a situation, the less likely an individual is to try and help. There are many factors which can affect someone's decision on whether or not to help, a large factor being whether or not there are a lot of other people around at the time of the emergency. In the Item it says that the lady collapsed "outside the coffee shop on the high street". This suggests that there might have been a lot of people around at the time of the incident, and this would have decreased the likelihood of Archie having helped the lady. Archie may have been thinking that somebody else was going to or had more expertise needed to help her.

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