Prosocial Behaviour

Question 1

Good moods lead to more prosocial behaviour

Answer 1

Isen (1970)

Question 2

Good moods lead to more prosocial behaviour due to people in bad moods being more internally focused and less sensitive to others.

Answer 2

Darley & Baston (1973)

Question 3

Guilt increases likelihood to help (R.W.S. _)

Answer 3

Regan, Williams and Sparling (1972) after being led to believe they broke a camera woman more likely to help someone after study

Question 4

Competence increases likelihood to help

Answer 4

Pantin & Carver (1982)

Question 5

Gender differences in when one helps.

Answer 5

Woman more likely to help in everyday situations (more empathetic). Men more likely to help in dangerous situations. Eagly & Crowley (1986)

Question 6

Gender differences in who one helps

Answer 6

Men more likely to help women. Women do not hold gender bias. (Pomazal & Clore 1973)

Question 7

Group membership - more likely to help someone from own group.

Answer 7

Gaertner & Dovidio (1977)

Question 8

bystander-calculus model

Answer 8

Pilivan et al. (1981)

Question 9

Cognitive model study and four steps

Answer 9

Latané & Darley (1968) Attend to incident + define as emergency + accept personal responsibility + decide what to do (can I help?)

Question 10

Smoke filled room study

Answer 10

Latané & Darley (1968) more likely to take action alone than with another person especially if other person doesn’t react.