Exam 9: Prosocial Behavior

How does evolutionary theory explain helping among nonrelatives?

Fund-raisers have learned that donations are particularly likely to be given when people are alerted to the existence of

How does the phenomenon of diffusion of responsibility relate to the social responsibility norm for helping victims?

In which of the following circumstances would you be more likely help relatives compared to nonrelatives?

We are LESS likely to help our friends

Your text states that the cornerstone of the_________________model of helping is a desire to reduce the distress one feels when observing suffering.

According to the social responsibility norm, we are LESS likely to help when

Which of the following is an example of the negative state relief model?

According to the negative state relief model, sad individuals are LESS likely to help

According to evolutionary theory, people are more likely to help those to whom they are genetically related. Which of the following cues do people use to determine genetic relatedness?

In a study of charitable giving and volunteering in the United States, 87 percent of the people surveyed said that the reason they contributed was that helping was consistent with their personal values. These findings suggest that people often help in order to

The altruism researcher Daniel Batson theorizes that pure altruism occurs when the helper feels

Research shows that_________________individuals are especially willing to help, whether the helping act promises to be rewarding or not.

Alessandro wanted to help the victims of the recent earthquake in Italy. He anonymously established a fund to help the families of the victims. Even inside the banks no one knew who had done this. Alessandro did this without any desire for external or internal rewards. This is an example of

Which of the following, according to the negative state relief model, would be most likely to increase helping?

According to the textbook, high self-esteem people are less likely to seek help than low self- esteem people

Helping is more likely when there is a large, versus a small, group of onlookers.

How do person factors such as age, gender, and self-esteem affect the likelihood of someone asking for needed help?

Describe three situational factors that are relevant to performing prosocial action and give an example of each factor.

In one study demonstrating the pluralistic ignorance effect, researchers pumped smoke through a vent into a laboratory where participants were filling out a questionnaire. The results of the study indicated that participants were most likely to report the smoke when