Social Psych - Prosocial Behavior

Why of the following is the best example of pure altruism?

Adam gives a homeless man a sandwich because he is hungry.

Helping is more common in large cities than small towns.

False.

People with an external locus of control are more likely to help than those with an internal locus of control.

False.

The Gallup found no difference in volunteering for religious people.

False.

Helping behavior can be learned from parents and reinforced by the environment.

True.

Helping increases self-esteem.

True.

Men get recognized more for helping.

True.

Moods affect whether or not and how often we help in the various opportunities that present themselves.

True.

We are more likely to offer help to victims in emergency situations after learning about the bystander effect.

True.

Woman are more helped than men.

True.

Which of the following is NOT one of the steps in Darley and Latané's decision tree?

Weighing the costs and benefits of helping

_____ refers to pure, undiluted helping behavior, whereas _____ refers to self-motivated helping.

altruism; egoism

Whether someone helps a victim depends greatly on the number of people who observe the same incident is explained by

bystander intervention

Prosocial behavior refers to action that is

intended to benefit another

Evolutionary theory predicts or explains

people help their kin more than strangers

In response to the Kitty Genovese incident, researchers have studied helping behavior and found all of the following except:

people who live in the city are more likely to help

_____ occurs where the majority of individuals in a group assume that most of their others are different in some way, whilst the truth is that they are more similar than they realize. They thus will conform with supposed norms. When most people do this, the supposed norm becomes the norm. In terms of prosocial behavior, sometimes people don't help because they don't know what to do and they look to see what the group is doing. This phenomenon is best explained by

pluralistic ignorance

In class we learned that there is a social norm, where we give something in return when we get something. This is known as

reciprocity norm

All of the following have been shown to affect helping behavior except

social cues

If you are the victim of the emergency, you should do all of the following except

tell them they have something to gain