Helping others

Question 1

What is pro social behavior?

Answer 1

any act performed with the goal of helping another person

Question 2

What is altruism?

Answer 2

the desire to help another person even if it involves a cost to the helper. It has to do not just with the cost but the benefit

Question 3

What is kin selection ?

Answer 3

preferential helping of genetic relatives so that common genes survive

Question 4

What is reciprocal altruism?

Answer 4

the expectation that helping others will increase the likelihood that they will help us in the future

Question 5

What is the social exchange theory?

Answer 5

maximize benefits and minimize costs

Question 6

What is empathy?

Answer 6

putting yourself in another`s shoes

Question 7

What is empathy-altruism hypothesis?

Answer 7

taking another persons perspective leads you to be willing to help them to reduce their distress

Question 8

What is altruistic personality?

Answer 8

the qualities that cause an individual to help others in a wide variety of situations.

Question 9

What is advanced moral reasoning?

Answer 9

moral standards outweigh social controls and taking into account the needs of others.

Question 10

What are the gender differences for helping others?

Answer 10

women are more likely to offer help, the type of help matters . men engage in heroic acts, are more likely to help women then men. Women help both equally.

Question 11

What is the urban overload hypothesis?

Answer 11

people living in cities are bombarded with stimulation so keep to themselves to avoid being overwhelmed.

Question 12

What is the good mood effect?

Answer 12

good mood increases helping behavior

Question 13

What is the negative-state relief hypothesis?

Answer 13

helping in order to alleviate ones own sadness, distress

Question 14

What is the bystander effect?

Answer 14

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

Question 15

What are the 5 steps to helping?

Answer 15

noticing, interpreting, taking responsibility, deciding how to help, providing help.

Question 16

What are the barriers for noticing in helping others?

Answer 16

perceiving the problem, self-concerns, and stimulus overload

Question 17

What are the barriers for interpreting in helping others?

Answer 17

don’t want to overreact

Question 18

What is pluralistic ignorance?

Answer 18

when people mistakenly believe their own beliefs/ thoughts are different from others.

Question 19

What are the barriers/diffusion in responsibility?

Answer 19

the idea that the amount of responsibility assumed by witnesses to an emergency is shared among them

Question 20

What are the barriers for deciding how ?

Answer 20

lack of knowledge, lack of competence (knowing how to do something but not being good at it).

Question 21

What are the barriers for providing help?

Answer 21

danger to self, legal concerns

Question 22

What is audience inhibition?

Answer 22

reluctance to help for fear of making a bad impression on others

Question 23

What are the ways to overcome the bystander effect?

Answer 23

point out the person, state that you need help, be clear about the type of assistance you need

Question 24

Who is in need of help?

Answer 24

attributed to external factors= more willing to help, attributed to internal factors= less willing to help

Question 25

What is the norm of reciprocity?

Answer 25

people should reciprocate helping

Question 26

What is the norm of social responsibility?

Answer 26

people should help those in need