PSY 223 Exam 4 part 2
"Good Samaritan" laws
All of these
Which of the following combinations of traits has been shown to be essential to helping?
Empathy and advanced moral reasoning
Which of the following is not one of the five steps to helping proposed by Latané and Darley (1970)?
Invoke the norm of reciprocity
Which social norm suggests that people who are fairly well-off in life should use their position to help those who are in need?
Norm of equity
According to Latané and Darley's (1970) five-step model of helping, analysis of costs and rewards occurs at what step?
Providing help
The belief that others will or should take the responsibility for providing assistance to a person in need is called
diffusion of responsibility.
When Jo witnessed a serious plane crash, she felt compassion, sympathy, and tenderness for the victims. Her feelings are indicative of
empathic concern.
Darley and Batson (1973) found that the helping behavior of seminary students was best predicted by
how much time they had.
The empathy-altruism model suggests that when escape from a situation is easy, people will
offer help only when they have empathic concern.
Kelli always tries to be very helpful because she believes it increases her chances of receiving help at a future time. Kelli's thinking most closely reflects the concept of
reciprocal altruism.
Kevin asks Winnie to drive him to the airport. Though Winnie doesn't really want to, she agrees because Kevin loaned her money last week. Winnie agreed to help because of the norm of
reciprocity.
According to the empathy-altruism hypothesis, altruistic behavior is primarily the result of
taking another's perspective.
As she is about to walk into the grocery store, Melissa sees a woman struggling with her groceries. Melissa is most likely to help this woman if
Melissa feels guilty about having parked in the handicapped space.
Which hormone has been implicated by neuroscientists in empathy and prosocial behaviors?
Oxytocin
Some cross-racial helping is not truly altruistic because it can be a sign of
feelings of superiority over the person being helped.
The evolutionary principle of kin selection dictates that we are more likely to help someone who is
genetically similar to us.
Manny needs help, and Pedro is capable of giving it. Pedro is more likely to help if he
has a shared identity with Manny.
The negative state relief model of helping behavior
identifies yet another way in which helping can be egoistic.
Whether or not someone seems responsible for her own predicament is more influential on helping behavior
in individualistic cultures.
Research by Omoto and Snyder (1995) found that volunteers who decided to help AIDS victims had _____ service if their motives were _____.
longer; self-oriented
Research by Rilling et al. (2002) suggests that ________ behavior is linked to activation of the brain in areas associated with processing rewards.
mutually cooperative
Dewanto hears what sounds like gunshots coming from the school parking lot. None of his classmates appears concerned, so Dewanto assumes that they know the sound was only a car backfiring or someone playing with firecrackers. Dewanto's beliefs illustrate
pluralistic ignorance.