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Discuss research related to bystander behaviour. When we talk about bystander behaviour we are considering a special case of helping behaviour. Latane and Darley (1970) came up with a model to explain why bystanders at emergencies do and sometimes do not offer help this was called the cognitive model. At each stage in the model the answer no results in no help being given while the answer yes leads the individual closer to offering help. They argued that helping responses maybe inhibited at any stage of the process. Here are the inhibitions described at each stage" Stage 1 the bystander may not notice the situation, stage 2 the situation may be ambiguous and not readily interpretable as an emergency, stage 3 the person may avoid taking responsibility by assuming someone else will, stage 4 should the person wish to take responsibility for helping g and finally in stage 5 competent people...

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