Opening Skinner's Box In The Unlikely Event Of A Water Landing

Essay 1: Opening Skinner’s Box
In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing March 13, 1964. Queens, New York. Catherine Genovese, known also as “Kitty” was a twenty-eight year old woman on her way home from a late night shift as a bar manager, parks her car in a neighboring parking lot to her apartment. It is about three in the early morning and Genovese begins making the short walk to her apartment when a man by the name of Winston Moseley runs up behind her and stabs a knife into her back. Then she begins to be repeatedly stabbed by Winston and lights from nearby apartments start to come one. Even with Genovese screaming several times for help and lights continue to flicker on, nobody comes downstairs to see what is happening. Only a shout

The experiment would last for about six minutes because they were trying to stick closely to Genovese’s suffering time. One colleague would pretend to have a seizure while several of the subjects could hear but not see what was happening to the seizing colleague. The subjects also knew the seizing man was prone to having seizures because he told them in the beginning of the experiment that he was prone to having them. The subjects couldn’t hear the other subjects so Darley and Latané could determine if the subjects would react on their own because of what they were hearing from the seizing colleague. This would also imitate Genovese’s murder circumstances because the thirty-eight witness were all in their own apartments when the murder occurred. The experiment was a success with many shocking

Their experiment had shown the reason why the thirty-eight witness of Genovese’s murder failed to aid her.
If a large amount of people experience an incident together, the single obligation of a lone person is felt to be less liable because the responsibility is felt to be equally dispersed among the group (Slater 102).
I agree with that explanation of Darley and Latané’s research results because my experience in school, work and emergency situations have confirmed it. There were several instance in my schooling years when I can remember a teacher putting all the children in an awkward situation by asking an off the cuff question and then asking for volunteers. The whole class would keep their hands down. While working in a retail setting I can recall having large staff meetings where associates would be less inclined to give constructive criticism when the manager asked for it. Finally I remember an emergency situation when a man lost control and rolled his vehicle in front of me while one the freeway, when all the witness were called upon by the sheriff to give statements about what they had seen, nobody seemed to want to go