Exam 9: Prosocial Behaviour: Doing Whats Best for Others

Much of the time, people engage in altruistic behaviours because doing so makes them feel good.Is it correct to conclude, then, that altruistic acts are fundamentally selfish at their core? What do social psychologists generally conclude?

If a workgroup operates under the ________________ norm, then each person in the group will be rewarded in direct proportion to the amount that he or she contributed.

Suppose that you are walking to work, alone, and you notice a spooky man crawling on the ground alongside a building, holding a gun.He is clearly up to no good.In which of the following cases would you be MOST likely to do something about it (such as call the police)?

Abdul is having a seizure in the back of the classroom.His classmates look around at each other, unsure of how to react.As they watch each other doing nothing, they shrug and go about packing up for the next class, assuming that nothing must be wrong because no one else reacted as if it were an emergency.Their reactions illustrate diffusion of responsibility.

How does money impact self-sufficiency?

Research indicates that reciprocity norms are found in ____ human cultures.

Stanley Milgram's classic research on obedience to authority was spurred on by - and conducted in the wake of - ____.

Explain the norms that humans use to determine fairness, and provide one example of each.

During the hurricane and subsequent flooding in New Orleans several years ago, survivors reported that they were much more likely to search for displaced family members than for friends.This finding supports the idea of ____.

Emma's company cannot even afford to give cost-of-living raises to everyone, so they opt to give every full-time employee a one-time R15 000 bonus, regardless of the employee's salary or responsibilities.This ensures ____.

According to the textbook, the opposite of prosocial behaviour is ____.

Njabulo recognises that, for whatever reason, his boss seems to favour him over another employee, Vuyo.Although Njabulo believes that, objectively, he and Vuyo produce a similar quantity of similar quality work, Njabulo receives a substantially higher merit raise than did Vuyo, and Njabulo feels guilty about this.Njabulo is best described as being concerned that he has been ____.

In one well-known study of helping behaviour, researchers examined helping among a sample of theology students.The students were either (a) under time pressure or not put under time pressure and (b) expecting to give a speech about the parable of the (very helpful) Good Samaritan or expecting to give a speech about something else.Which students turned out to be the MOST helpful?

If laws do not exist or are widely disobeyed, ________________ is said to be lacking.

________________ can be defined as ceasing to feel angry toward, and ceasing to seek retribution against, someone who has wronged you.

Many have argued that Milgram's classic research on obedience to authority was unethical.Indeed, Milgram's research provided much of the impetus for the implementation of ethics committees and research review boards in universities.Why? What was the chief complaint?

Research on the relationship between the time of day and morality suggests that ____.

The Identification With All Humanity Scale is a measure of ____.

The empathy-altruism hypothesis suggests that people who routinely engage in altruistic behaviour gradually become more and more empathetic to others.

In Vohs et al.'s (2006) experiments, people who had been primed with a screen saver of dollar bills tended to ____ than people who had a blank screen or a fish screen saver image as a prime.