Helping Flashcards

1
Q

Prosocial behaviour:

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immediate intention is to HELP or BENEFIT OTHERS

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2
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Altruism

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Prosocial behavior motivated by desire to help others for its own sake, not for personal rewards

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3
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Egoism

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Prosocial behavior motivated at least in part by desire for personal rewards

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4
Q

examples of decisions leading to helping

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Is it needed? it it deserved? Who is in need? what is your relationship?

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5
Q

Darley and Latané

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Decision tree of helping

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6
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Decision tree of helping

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Darley and Latané:

  1. Noticing
  2. Defining it as emergency
  3. Assuming responsibility
  4. Making a decision on how to help
  5. Helping
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7
Q

Appropriate norms of helping

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If other people help, then
people perceive norm of
helping
• Personal norms of helping,
often from parents or other
role models
• Legal approach to helping
• Religious teachings of norms
of helping
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8
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Inappropriate norms of helping

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• Norm of family privacy
• Others’ failure to help
produces norm of not
helping

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9
Q

Theory explains helping: Evolutionary

A

kin selection

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10
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Theory explains helping: Affective

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maintaining good mood

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11
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Theory explains helping: Decision theory

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cost – benefit calculations

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12
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Cultural approach

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ethical requirements and cultural norms of helping

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13
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Emotional rewards of Helping

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•Happy people are more likely to help
• Sad people help to escape from negative mood
•Negative-state relief model of helping
• But sad people are not always
helpful
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14
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Personal rewards to helping

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• Ability to help

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15
Q

Helping in-group

members:

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  • Similarity
  • Interaction
  • Communal relationship
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16
Q

Superficial Processing

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Emergencies often limit processing

17
Q

The Impact of SystematicProcessing

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Planned, long-term helping allows systematic processin

18
Q

Inspiregratitudevs. Owing favor in return

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Messageof caringvs. Messageof power

19
Q

Fisher & Nadler: 1982

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Self-supportive vs. Self-threatening help(1982)

autonomy oriented vs. dependency oriented help

20
Q

Increasing Prosocial Behavior in Society

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  • Reduce ambiguity of situation
  • Increase internal attributions for helping
  • Teach norms that support helping, cooperation
  • Make prosocial norms accessible
  • Avoid diffusion of responsibility
  • Promote identification with those in need(commoningroup identity)