Deck 9: Helping: Prosocial Behavior

Question 1

What is the conceptual definition of prosocial behavior?

Answer 1

Behavior intended to benefit others

Question 2

Give examples of prosocial behaviors.

Answer 2

Helping
- Comforting
- Sharing
- Cooperating
- Reassuring
- Defending
- Showing concern

Question 3

What is the difference between prosocial behavior and altruism?

Answer 3

Altruism is a subset of prosocial behavior
- Altruism requires the behavior to be motivated mainly out of consideration of another's needs

Question 4

What are the three possible kinds of social value orientation?

Question 5

What phenomenon do psychologists cite to explain the bystander effect?

Question 6

Give example of possible egoistic motives of prosocial behavior.

Question 7

Why would prosocial behavior towards one's family be interpreted as egoistic?

Question 8

What is meant by modeling?

Question 9

Why would someone in a good mood be more likely to display prosocial behavior?

Question 10

According to Darley and Latané (1968), what are the 5 steps that pave the way to bystander intervention?

Question 11

Does political orientation leads the differences in decisions to help or not? How so?

Question 12

What is the conceptual definition of empathy?

Question 13

How does the notion of empathic joy explain prosocial behavior?

Question 14

What hypothesis interprets altruism as egoistic by claiming the helping others amounts to helping oneself?

Question 15

What is the difference between descriptive and injunctive norms?

Question 16

According to the false consensus effect, how do people with a cooperative social value orientation expect others to behave? And why?

Question 17

According to Kohlberg (1963) what are the 3 levels of moral reasoning?

Question 18

What are the main concerns of people that have a preconventional level of moral reasoning

Question 19

What are the main concerns of people that have a postconventional level of moral reasoning

Question 20

What does belief in a just world entail?