# Research on the Bystander Effect

IELTS Academic Listening - 10 questions - 7 minutes - Matching information, Sentence completion

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## The recording

6 minutes of audio. Practice it with the player on the page; the transcript is on the answers page.

## Questions

### Questions 21-25: Matching information

Which study does each statement refer to? Choose the correct letter, A-D. NB You may use any letter more than once.

- **A** the intercom experiment by Darley and Latané
- **B** the smoke-filled room experiment by Latané and Darley
- **C** the re-examination of the Genovese case by Manning, Levine and Collins
- **D** the CCTV study by Philpot and colleagues

21. Recordings were used to make participants believe that other people were present.

22. Those who did not respond seemed anxious rather than uncaring.

23. Some participants explained a warning sign in a way that made it seem harmless.

24. It argues that a well-known story has restricted the scope of later research.

25. Results were much the same in places where people feel differently about public safety.

### Questions 26-30: Sentence completion

Complete the sentences below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.

26. Participants in the intercom study were told that the separate rooms would keep them _____.

27. Spoken interventions could not be counted in the CCTV study because the videos had no _____.

28. Some bystanders' judgement of risk may have been affected by _____.

29. In 2016 the newspaper admitted that its original reporting had been _____.

30. Hannah wants the essay to end by calling the story of the 38 witnesses a present-day _____.

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