Exam 12: Helping Behavior

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Norms of social ________ are rules about fairness and the proper distribution of resources.

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Which of the following factors is associated with higher levels of helping behavior?

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Global praise appears to be more effective in encouraging helping behavior than dispositional praise.

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A woman who is fighting with a man and needs help from a passerby would be wise to scream

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An act performed voluntarily to help someone else when there is no expectation of receiving a reward is known as

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The first step in the decision-making perspective on helping is taking personal responsibility.

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Researchers have found that we are most likely to be helpful to

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Evolutionary theorists believe that altruism among animals and humans persists because

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One study showed that ________ have a broader definition of social responsibilities than do Americans.

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What is diffusion of responsibility and how does it explain people's failure to help?

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True altruism is defined by a person's ________.

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Currently, close to _____% of Peace Corps volunteers are women.

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A study of regular blood donors found all of the following EXCEPT

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Applying research on the reinforcement of helping in children, how should Jessica's mother respond when she sees Jessica help her playmate?

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Ethan volunteers to help with the local Special Olympics in order to build up his resume for job hunting. His behavior would best be described as

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Americans have a broader definition of social responsibilities to family, friends, and strangers than do Hindus.

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Attribution theory argues that we are more likely to be happy about receiving help when

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Imagine that you are walking down the street and you witness a man slumped over the steering wheel of his car, which is parked by the side of the road. Apply the four steps of the decision-making approach to helping behavior to this example. Identify each step and describe which responses would lead a person to decide to help this man.

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________ refers to feelings of sympathy and caring for others, in particular to sharing vicariously or indirectly in the suffering of others.

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Explain and give an example of the social norm that is expressed by the following quotation: "There is no duty more indispensable than that of returning a kindness." (Cicero)

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