Ch 10 Helping Others Flashcards
Kin selection
Preferential helping of genetic relatives, which results in greater likelihood that Jean’s held in common will survive.
Empathy def
Understanding or vicariously experiencing another individuals perspective and feeling sympathy and compassion for that individual
Perspective taking
Cognitive component of empathy.
Using imagination to see world through someone else’s eyes.
Empathetic Concern
Emotional component of empathy.
Involves other oriented feelings, such as sympathy, compassion,tenderness.
Prosocial Behaviors
Actions intended to benefit others
Arousal: cost-reward model
The proposition that people react to emergency situations by acting in the most cost-effective way to reduce the arousal of shock and alarm
Empathetic joy
The pleasure one has at seeing another person experience relief
Negative state relief model
Proposition that because of this positive effect of helping, people who are feeling bad may be inclined to help others in order to improve their mood.
Courageous resistance
Thoughtful helping in the face of potentially enormous costs.
Egoistic
Motivated by the desire to increase ones own welfare.
Altruistic
Motivated by the desire to improve another’s welfare b
Empathy Altruism hypothesis
If you perceive someone in need and imagine how that person feels, you’re likely to experience other oriented feelings of empathetic concern, which in turn produce the altruistic motive to reduce the other persons distress.
Pluralistic ignorance
In this state of ignorance, each individual believes that his or her own thoughts and feelings are different from those of other people, when in fact many of the other people are thinking or feeling the same way.
Diffusion of responsibility
The belief that others will or should intervene
Audience inhibition
Reluctance to help for fear of making a bad impression on observers.
