Social Psychology Helping ch 10

empathic concern

others oriented feelings, such as empathy, compassion and tenderness

egoistic

motivated by selfish concerns

Audience Inhibition

Reluctance to help for fear of making a bad impression on observers

prosocial behavior

actions intended to benefit others

When Jo witnesses a serious plane crash, she feels compassion, sympathy, and tenderness for the victims. Her feelings are indicative of Answers: A.kin selection. B.empathic concern. C.perspective taking. D.anxious introspection.

b. empathic concern

In order to help people access new video games levels (essentially allowing them to cheat at the games), Dennis creates a website where gamers can upload and save new cheat codes as well as codes the unlock secret levels in the most popular video games. Users are expected to share codes for others to use whenever they can, and not just take codes to use themselves. The foundation of this website's success is the concept of: Answers: A.kin selection. B.reciprocal altruism. C.the empathy-altruism hypothesis. D.audience inhibition.

b. reciprocal altruism

Altruistic

motivated by the desire to increase anothers welfare

Diffusion of responsibility

the belief that others will or should take the responsibility for providing assistance to a person in need

bystander effect

the effect whereby the presence of others inhibits helping

Helping behavior is adaptive from an evolutionary standpoint if: Answers: A.it is performed for altruistic rather than egoistic motives. B.the economic rewards of helping are greater than the costs. C.it helps to secure propagation of an individual's genes. D.the fittest individual does not gain an advantage over the less-fit.

C.it helps to secure propagation of an individual's genes.

Empathy

Understanding and feeling another persons feelings

reciprocal altruism

an individual helping another (despite some immediate risk or cost) and becoming more likely to receive help from another in return

Giles volunteers his time to his local community center because he thinks it will look good on his college applications. Giles's behavior would best be described as likely Answers: A.democratic. B.altruistic. C.idealistic. D.egoistic.

d. egoistic

kin selection

preferential helping of genetic relatives, results in the greater likelyhood that genes held in common will survive

empathy-altruism hypothesis

the proposition that empathic concern for a person in need produces an altruistic motive for helping

negative state relief model

the proposition that people help others in order to counter act their own feelings of sadness

pluralistic ignorance

the state in which people in a group mistakenly think that their own individual thoughts,feelings, or behaviors are different from those of the others in the group

Which statement is most consistent with the negative state relief model? Answers: A.People who win the lottery are more likely to give money to charity than those who have not won the lottery. B.Students who feel guilty about falling asleep in class are more likely to volunteer to help a professor by completing a questionnaire. C.Shoppers who are given a free gift are more likely to donate money to a solicitor as they leave the store. D.Professional athletes are more likely to sign autographs for fans following a win than following a loss.

B.Students who feel guilty about falling asleep in class are more likely to volunteer to help a professor by completing a questionnaire.