Chapter 10 Pro-Social Behaviour Flashcards
Pro social behaviour
An act taken to benefit someone els
Altruism
The desire to help others, even if it involves a cost to the helper.
Kim selection
The idea that pro social behaviour is greater with genetic relatives
Norm of Reciprocity
The expecting that helping others will increase the likelihood that they will help us in the future.
Empathy
The ability to experience events and emotions the way that others do.
Empathy Altruism Hypothesis
The idea that when we feel altruism, we will attempt to help them out of purely altruistic reasons.
Altruistic Personality
A personality trait characterized by qualities such as sympathy, empathy and felt responsibility to help others across a wide variety of situations.
In-group
The group with which an individual identifies and of which they feel a member.
Out-group
A group with which an individual does not identify.
Urban-overload Hypothesis
The theory that because people living i cities are over stimulated, they keep to themselves to avoid being overloaded.
By-stander effect
The finding that the greater part he number of bystanders while witness an emergency, the less likely they are to help.
Pluralistic ignorance
The phenomena whereby bystanders assume that nothing is wrong in an emergency because no one els looks concerned.
Diffusion of Responsibility
Each bystanders sense of responsibility to help decreases as the number of witnesses to an emergency or crisis increases.
