Week 6: Social psychology part 2 Flashcards
Behaviour that helps other people with no apparent gain or with potential cost to oneself
altruism
____________is the doctrine that all behaviour is designed to increase oneโs own pleasure or reduce oneโs own pain.
Ethical hedonism
_____________ which holds that natural selection favours animals that behave altruistically if the likely benefit to each individual over time exceeds the likely cost. In other words, if the dangers are small but the gains in survival and reproduction are large, altruism is an adaptive strategy.
reciprocal altruism,
a diminished sense of personal responsibility to act because others are seen as equally responsible.
diffusion of responsibility
A decision-making model of bystander intervention.
In the first stage, the bystander must notice the emergency.
In stage 2, the bystander must interpret the incident as an emergency.
In stage 3, the bystander must assume responsibility.
Once the bystander accepts responsibility, he must then decide what to do and try to do it.
โ At any point in this process, a bystander may make a decision that leads to inaction.
bystander intervention
A form of altruism involving helping people in need
______ refers to compliance with the demands of an authority
obedience
_______means changing attitudes or behaviour to accommodate the standards of peers or groups
conformity
__________refers to the effects of the presence of others on the way people think, feel and behave.
Social influence
______ standards for the behaviour of group members
Norms
The groups to which a person refers when taking action.
reference group
A reference group can be _____ or _____
positive,
negative
A positive reference group (but not necessarily a positive ______)
influence
A_____is a position in a group that has norms specifying appropriate behaviour for its occupants
role
the group members who take responsibility for seeing that the group completes its tasks are called _______ , or ________. Others, called _____________, try to keep the group working cohesively and with minimal animosity.
task leaders,
instrumental leaders,
socialโemotional leader