Exam 13: Prosocial Behavior: Why We Help and Why We Don’t

When Serena's friend loses her job Serena feels concern for her and can understand from her friend's perspective the hardships she's experiencing.Serena is demonstrating which of the following?

Jane has a crush on Ben's roommate.She volunteers to help Ben set up for a party so that she can spend more time around his roommate.Jane's motivation for helping can best be described as:

Who would be most likely to agree to an unforeseen request for a donation to a charity organization?

Which of the following is considered a model which postulates that selfish motivations drive helping behavior?

According to information presented in your text,which of the following would be considered a more effective way to increase helping behavior?

You think you hear cries for help in a nearby by office in your building.You think that you should go and see if anyone is in need of help but your coworkers do not appear to be concerned.You decide it must be nothing and do not end up investigating the cause of the noise.This best illustrates an example of:

Which of the following factors has NOT been found to increase helping behavior?

Tara is debating whether she should spend her Saturday helping her friend move.Using the concept of cost-benefit analysis,describe how Tara might go about making her decision?

In support of the notion of kin selection,researchers have found that:

What difference in helping behavior has been identified between conservatives and liberals?

The relationship between self-awareness and the likelihood that an individual will help can be characterized as:

People who are self-aware are _______ to help others.

Researchers have found that people from ________are more likely than people from ________ to offer their bone marrow to strangers.

Which of the following is considered the third step in Latane and Darley's Decision Model of Bystander Intervention?

Is a person's level of attractiveness relevant to a person's willingness to help? Provide evidence from your textbook to support your answer.

Researchers investigating volunteers' motives for helping people with AIDS,tracking how long they continued to work,found that:

________ is behavior intended to benefit others.

Noticing a need for help is the first step in Darley and Latane's decision model of bystander intervention.

When an individual feels less personal responsibility to help this is known as________.

Erin provides her niece with money and a place to live until she can find a job.Evolutionary psychologists might argue that Erin is helping her niece based on the concept of: