Exam 9: Prosocial Behaviour

According to the textbook, which of the following is a way that we can encourage more bystander intervention?

With regard to emergency situations:

According to the kinship principle, we are more likely to help close relatives because:

When Ross and Braband (1973) used a blind confederate in an experiment in which the confederate and the subject worked in a room into which smoke was introduced:

Reparative altruism suggests that:

Attributions are important with respect to prosocial behaviour because:

In the Latané and Rodin (1969) experiment in which participants apparently heard a woman in an adjacent room fall from a chair, it was found that the bystander effect was reduced when:

Gender roles influence helping behaviour in that:

The finding that participants who experience failure are more likely to help if the request for help or charity comes from a person who is aware of their failure indicates a support for:

In the experiment in which a subject was apparently having an epileptic seizure, Darley and Latané (1968) found that:

According to the ____________ hypothesis, altruism is elicited as a result of feeling a connection with another person witnessed to be in distress.

Prosocial behaviour is more likely to be found in children who:

You are running to catch a bus and happen to trip and fall, breaking your leg. According to research on the bystander effect, a stranger who sees your plight will be more likely to offer help if there are __________ others present.

Research indicates that those who are __________ are more likely to act in a prosocial manner.

Latané and Darley attempted to explain people's failure to intervene in cases like that of Kitty Genovese in terms of:

The theory that explains the acquisition of prosocial behaviour as the Result of reinforcement and modelling is the __________ theory.

The Piliavin model of intervention predicts that:

Self-attributions are important in the development of prosocial behaviour because:

We are less likely to help when there are non-responding others around because:

Research indicates that what brain mechanism relates to forgiveness?