Question

Sometimes a person looks to others to determine whether help needs to be offered in an ambiguous situation. When this person incorrectly concludes that no help is necessary, this is called ________ ignorance.

Answer 1

Answer:Pluralistic ignorance

Explanation:Pluralistic ignorance is when we feel like people acting similar to how we act are doing that for a different reason than our reason.

For example when there is an accident in the middle of a busy town and you stand amongst everyone who stands and watches a person who got hurt but you assume that since no one approaches the hurt person this means the accident wasn't serious.

Another example is when you didn't understand a lesson in class but when a teacher asks if anyone didn't understand something ,you first look around and realise that no one raises their hands and you assume that everyone understood everything you are the only one who didn't understand and you feel like you are going to look stupid if you raise your hands. It never crosses your mind that maybe everyone is feeling the same thing that they are feeling , embarrassed to raise their hands and ask.

These different assumptions we make about the causes of others behavior and the causes of our won behavior lead to pluralistic ignorance.

Answer 2

c) pluralistic

Step-by-step explanation:

Sometimes a person looks to others to determine whether help needs to be offered in an ambiguous situation. When this person incorrectly concludes that no help is necessary, this is called pluralistic ignorance.

Pluralistic ignorance in social psychology is a situation in which a majority of group members privately reject a norm, but go along with it because they assume, incorrectly, that most others accept it. A scenario would be, if a group of five men sees a man beating up a woman, each one of them may want to help out but will not because no one else is showing concern, they incorrectly assume that the rest individuals in the group accept the situation as normal.