Helping Behavior Flashcards
prosocial behavior
actions intended to benefit others
kin selection
preferential helping of genetic relatives, which results in the greater likelihood that gene held in common will survive
empathy
understanding or vicariously experiencing another individual’s perspective and feeling sympathy and compassion for that individual
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
negative state relief model
the proposition that people help others in order to counteract their own feelings of sadness
egoistic
motivated by the desire to increase one’s own welfare
altruistic
motivated by the desire to increase another’s welfare
empathy-altruism hypothesis
the proposition that empathic concern for a person in need produces an altruistic motive for helping
bystander effect
the effect whereby the presence of others inhibits helping
pluralistic ignorance
the state in which people in a group mistakenly think that their own individual thoughts, feelings, or behaviors are different from those of the others in the group
diffusion of responsibility
the belief that others will or should take the responsibility for providing assistance to a person in need
audience inhibition
reluctance to help for fear of making a bad impression on observers
social norm
a general rule of conduct reflecting standards of social approval and disapproval
