Exam 13: Altruism and Prosocial Behaviour

Which country could be labelled "the most helpful" according to research by Levine et al. (2001)?

Normally Chet doesn't stop when he encounters a flyer in the parking lot, but today he notices that his professor is coming his way and seems to be picking up the discarded flyers. Chet begins to pick up the flyers and shouts out a greeting to his professor. Chet is probably motivated by

The idea that when we feel empathy for a person, we will help that person even if we incur a cost by doing so; a hypothesis known as _______-________.

Carmelita notes that tips are always better on a sunny day because

According to your textbook, all of the following are factors that influence one's ability to interpret an event as an emergency, except

The decision-making process model includes how many steps?

The norm of ______________ says that we should help others in need, even if we do not expect them to help us in the future.

The idea that we should help those who are in need of assistance, because they will then help us in the future is referred to as norm of ___________.

All of the following are examples of situational factors that influence helping behaviour, except

We are more likely to give assistance to people when we believe that they were not responsible for their situation; this is due to the phenomenon of

Many high schools now require volunteer service as a graduation requirement. If the intention of this requirement is to encourage the students to volunteer in their communities, describe the limitations in this type of program. What alternatives might be considered to reach the intended goal?

The bystander effect results mainly from

People in cities help less as a result of the greater stimulation they are exposed to according to the

In the decision-making process model, what is the third step of the process?

Arousal/cost-reward model is to _____________ as social exchange model is to ____________.

As he was driving to school, Lucas witnessed a car accident and immediately stopped to offer assistance to the drivers involved; demonstrating the ideas behind the norm of

What do researchers believe primarily makes some people more empathic than others?

Determining the costs of helping has the following effect on altruistic behaviour:

People will often assume that there is no emergency because the other people around them are not reacting as if it is an emergency. This tendency for people to look to other people's behaviour to determine how they should react is referred to as

In his religious training, Batu has learned that it is important to help others. Batu joins a group of other teens to go to Mississippi to help rebuild homes destroyed in a flood. Batu is demonstrating which factor influencing helping behaviours?