Exam 10: Prosocial Behaviour

Some have speculated that people in rural areas are more likely to help than people in urban areas because "trust" and "being neighbourly" are more valued in rural than in urban settings.Were this true,who would be most likely to help a stranger who needed assistance?

The bystander effect refers to the finding that

Which of the following factors accounts for the fact that a person participating in an Internet chat room is less likely to receive help when more people are online?

Which of the following is NOT one of the steps in Latané and Darley's model of bystander decision making?

Tobias Greitemeyer's research on the effect of video games suggests that

Your textbook authors point out that the unfair perception that people from Asian cultures are less altruistic than people from Western cultures is likely due to the fact that

Social psychologists have found that people in good moods are likely to help,as are people in bad moods.Explain how the reasons for the help differs depending on the mood.

Some social psychologists,such as Daniel Batson (1991),believe that humans do sometimes help for selfless reasons.According to Batson,when does this happen?

Based on information from your text on the importance of belonging to a community,which of the following people would be more likely to give to a local charity?

People in non-Western interdependent cultures are more likely than Westerners to help in-group members,but less likely to help out-group members.These findings suggest that in non-Western cultures,the line between

When John Darley and Bibb Latané (1968)exposed participants to a faked seizure in one of three experimental conditions (participants were lone witnesses,one of two witnesses,or one of five witnesses),they found that

The authors provide the text of a UPI story describing the discovery of the bones of a disabled dwarf in a cave in northern Italy.The reporters speculate that over 12,000 years ago,early hominids would take care of the disabled members of their group._______ would argue that the bones belonged to a dwarf who was related to the other cave inhabitants,whereas _______ would argue that the other inhabitants relied on the dwarf for some unknown purpose.

Pluralistic ignorance results when _______ backfires.

Participants in an experiment by Miho Toi and Daniel Batson (1982)listened to an (alleged)radio interview in which a student in their Introductory Psychology class described an accident that caused her to fall behind in the course.Some participants were told that Carol would soon be returning to their class.Why would Toi and Batson refer to this as a "high cost" condition?

How do evolutionary theorists use the concepts of kin selection and the reciprocity norm to explain human prosocial behaviour?

When the prosocial behaviour of people low in socioeconomic status (SES)was compared with the prosocial behaviour of those high in SES (Piff et al,2010),those low in SES were more prosocial when the situation involved

In support for the empathy-altruism hypothesis,Miho Toi and Daniel Batson (1982)found that participants were more likely to help a student named Carol who was injured in an automobile accident when they were told

Which of the following best describes the urban-overload hypothesis (Milgram,1970)?

Darrin volunteers at a local children's program because he hopes to learn teaching skills that he can use later in his educational career.This is an example of _______ behaviour.

In a series of studies,Bibb Latané and John Darley have discovered that the greater the number of bystanders,the less likely it is that any individual will help.Why is that?