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.