Question

A confederate stands near a participant at a bus stop and drops some papers. The dependent variable is whether the participant helps the confederate pick them up. In a factorial design, one independent variable is whether the confederate is male or female and the other is whether the confederate has a cane or not. Which of the following describes a potential interaction effect in this experiment?

a. Participants help the confederate more when he or she has a cane
b. Participants help the confederate at a fairly high rate
c. Participants help the male confederate more when he has a cane but they help the female confederate at the same rate regardless of whether she has a cane
d. Many participants refuse to help

Answer 1

A potential effect of the interaction between the two variables is that participants will help, to a greater extent, the confederate if it is a man with a cane, however, women are helped in the same proportion with a cane or without a cane, as shown in option C.

We can arrive at this answer because:

• People tend to help other people who are more fragile.
• Thus, healthy men pass the image of strength and independence. In this case, people will feel unmotivated to help a man without a cane, as he represents this standard of strength stipulated by society.
• However, the image of fragility and dependence is encouraged in women and men with some health problems.
• The cane symbolizes a health problem that makes people fragile, for this reason, men and women with a cane encourage people to help them.
• However, healthy women are represented in society with the same fragility as people with health problems and for this reason, people would feel compelled to help women without a cane, in this experiment.

With this, we can conclude that the experiment can analyze the impetus that people have to help each other based on social stereotypes established by society.

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