Chapter 11

Question 1

altruism

Answer 1

desire to help another even if it involves a cost to the helper

Question 2

empathy-altruism hypothesis

Answer 2

when we feel empathy for another person, we will attempt to help the person for purely altruistic reasons, regardless of what we have to gain

Question 3

bystander effect

Answer 3

the greater the number of bystanders who witness an emergency, the less likely any one of them is to help

Question 4

pluralistic ignorance

Answer 4

people think that everyone else is interpreting a situation in a certain way, when in fact they are not

Question 5

diffusion of responsibility

Answer 5

each bystander’s sense of responsibility to help decreases as the number of witnesses increase