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2- Why are people prosocial? Flashcards

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What category are personal factors and situational factors in?

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Specific factors that may determine prosocial behaviour

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What is the helping reason leading to empathy based altruism?

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Feeling sorry for someone

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What type of factor is empathy based altruism?

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Social

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How is empathy based altruism motivated?

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By an emotional response

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What are the helping reasons for the nature of the need?

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Problems being uncontrollable, genuine, or clear (unambiguous)

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What is the nature of the need?

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We are more likely to help if the perceived need is clear and unambiguous, legitimate and uncontrollable

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What type of factor is the nature of the need?

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Situational

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How does perception of the victim influence helping behaviour?

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We are more likely to help if the victim is similar to you, someone you have a relationship with, or you perceive as attractive

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What type of factor is perception of the victim?

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Situational

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How does a good mood influence helping behaviour?

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We are more likely to help if we are in a good mood

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How might prosocialness and bad mood interact?

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Being prosocial may help alleviate our bad mood

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What type of factor is mood?

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Personal

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How might competence influence helping behaviour?

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We are more likely to help if you perceive yourself to be competent or have the skills to help

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What type of factor is competence?

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Personal

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What is diffusion of responsibility?

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Believing that someone else would help- reducing responsibility feeling

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What type of factor is diffusion of responsibility?

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Social

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What is audience inhibition?

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Having the fear of looking foolish or incompetent in front of others so not helping

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What type of factor is audience inhibition?

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Social/situational

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How does how well we know someone influence helping behaviour?

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If we know someone then we are more likely to help them

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What type of factor is knowing someone?

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Situational

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Why is evidence mixed for how a bad mood may influence helping behaviour?

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We may not help as we are more preoccupied with ourselves, however being prosocial may alleviate bad mood

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What is social influence regarding helping behaviour?

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If other onlookers seem to be unworried by the situation then we may be less likely to help

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What type of factor is social influence?

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Social

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What characterises a personal factor?

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What a person brings to the situation

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What characterises a situational factor?

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Things to do with the situation that can’t be controlled

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What characterises a social factor?

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How other people influence the reason to help/not

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5 additional personal factors

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  1. Feeling guilt
  2. Considering self as a ‘helpful person’
  3. Feeling in control
  4. Feeling like the leader
  5. Gender
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Why might feeling like the leader mean that we are more likely to help?

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Less diffusion of responsibility

29
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3 additional situational factors

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  1. Number of other bystanders
  2. Rural vs city location
  3. “Scrooge” effect
30
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What 3 things does the bystander effect depend on?

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  1. Nature of the group (reduced effect for ‘connected’ groups)
  2. Relationship with the victim (effect reduced for kinship)
  3. Seriousness of the situation (effect reduced for high-risk situations)
31
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What is the “scrooge” effect?

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We are more likely to help when confronted about own mortality

32
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What does the evolutionary account suggest that we have?

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A biological predisposition to help others

33
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What is the communicative gene (evolutionary account)?

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Programmed to recognise emotional signals + programmed to want social bonds= prosocial behaviour

34
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3 pieces of evidence supporting evolutionary accounts

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  1. Evidence for helping behaviour in animals
  2. More likely to help those related to us (kin selection)
  3. More likely to help the young than the old
35
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What is a problem with biological accounts?

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They can’t explain all behaviour

36
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What is reciprocal altruism?

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Helping because this person may help in the future

37
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What is the condition needed for reciprocal altruism?

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Costs for the helper must be lower than benefits for the recipient

38
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What 2 ways can we learn according to social accounts?

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Direct and indirect

39
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2 direct ways of social learning

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Instructions and reinforcements

40
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How is behaviour indirectly learnt?

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Modelling/vicarious learning

41
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What is the reciprocity norm?

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A norm to reciprocate behaviour

42
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What is the social responsibility norm?

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Deciding whether we should help someone in need or not

43
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What is an attribution?

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Way that we think about ourselves is going to determine whether we want to behave prosocially

44
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What is a self-attribution?

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Internalising helpful behaviour

45
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What is the benefit of a self-attribution?

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We can use it as a guide in future situations, and thinking of oneself as a ‘helpful person’ has greater longevity

46
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What is a victim attribution?

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Judgment about whether the victim deserved their fate

47
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What is the ‘just world hypothesis’?

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We need to believe that the world is a fair and just place

48
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What 2 conditions does helping depend on with a victim attribution?

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Belief that:
1- victim is a special case
2- need is temporary, not persistent

49
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What is empathy?

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Recognising emotional state of others

50
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What kind of response does empathy produce?

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An arousal response in the self

51
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2 consequences of attribution of the state to the other

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Empathetic response and prosocial behaviour

52
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2 consequences of misattribution of the state

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Personal distress and withdrawal

53
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What is the bystander-calculus model?

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Physiological arousal causes us to label the arousal and we evaluate consequences of helping/not helping

54
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Why does the evolutionary account say that we are prosocial?

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Survival of kin and reciprocal altruism

55
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Why do social accounts say that we are prosocial?

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Because we have been told to be, it may be rewarding, social norms dictate it, helps our own egos

56
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Why does the bystander-calculus model say we are prosocial?

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Benefits outweigh costs

57
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What is true empathy-based altruism?

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People help even when they are no longer troubled by observing another’s suffering

58
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Is receiving help always a positive thing?

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No

59
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What are 5 risks of receiving help?

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  • Gratitude expected
  • Threatens self-esteem
  • Reliance on others
  • Feeling inferior
  • Pressure to reciprocate

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