Question 1

Helping as a result of the physiological arousal from seeing someone in need of help and the calculation of the costs and rewards of providing help describes the

Accepted Answer

A)  cost-benefit analysis model. 
B)  transfer benefit model. 
C)  excitation-cost model. 
D)  arousal/cost-reward model.

Question 2

Socially rejected people are more likely to help others to feel better about themselves.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

According to your textbook, the self-benefits of helping can be grouped into all of the following categories, except

Accepted Answer

A)  social status. 
B)  fear of punishment for not helping. 
C)  desire for reward. 
D)  reduction of aversive arousal.

Question 4

If one is motivated to help another person to relieve his or her own concerns, this would be referred to as

Accepted Answer

A)  altruistic behaviour. 
B)  egoistic behaviour. 
C)  self-serving behaviour. 
D)  capitalistic behaviour.

Question 5

People in individualistic cultures are less likely to ask for help and therefore less likely to receive help, compared to people in collectivist cultures.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

People are motivated to help others in order to relieve their own negative feelings; a hypothesis known as _______-_______ _______

Accepted Answer

The answer of People are motivated to help others in...

Question 7

Requiring students to do volunteer service as a graduation requirement is a good strategy for building life-long volunteer service.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

The idea that we are motivated to help others that due to the expectation that they will then help us in return later on is referred to as _______ _______.

Accepted Answer

The answer of The idea that we are motivated to...

Question 9

When a person helps another person with no thought of benefit to the self, we call it

Accepted Answer

A)  appraising. 
B)  stonewalling. 
C)  altruism. 
D)  reciprocal altruism.

Question 10

Any behaviour that has the goal of helping another person is known as ____________.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Any behaviour that has the goal of...

Question 11

In a study examining the role of perspective taking and prosocial behaviour, Batson et al. (2003) asked students to assign themselves and another person to a research task; one of the tasks was less desirable. Students in the experimental condition were asked to complete a perspective taking exercise. The findings of this study included all of the following statements, except

Accepted Answer

A)  75% of the students who did not complete the perspective taking task assigned the more desirable task to themselves. 
B)  Perspective taking seems to have a negative correlation with prosocial behaviour. 
C)  Less than half of the students who completed the perspective taking task assigned the more desirable task to themselves. 
D)  Engaging in perspective taking can increase prosocial behaviour.

Question 12

The author suggests that ____________________ explains why conservatives tend to oppose spending on social programs while liberals tend to support it.

Accepted Answer

A)  the empathy-arousal hypothesis 
B)  the kinship effect 
C)  belief in a just world 
D)  the norm of reciprocity

Question 13

The idea that we have an obligation to help those who are in need of assistance, even if we have no expectation that we will ever receive help from them is referred to as norm of ______ _______.

Accepted Answer

The answer of The idea that we have an obligation...

Question 14

Receiving help can actually make you feel inferior; for example the case of overhelping.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

In relation to helping, what does overjustification refer to?

Accepted Answer

A)  The fact that we have a tendency to help genetic relatives more than strangers. 
B)  The fact that we tend to help others in order to decrease our negative arousal. 
C)  The fact that the more people present, the less likely we are to help. 
D)  The fact that giving a reward can undermine spontaneous helping.

Question 16

Rachel was happy to give Dan a ride to school one week while his car was being repaired because she felt that she now could ask Dan for a ride if her car broke down. Rachel is motivated to help Dan because of

Accepted Answer

A)  reciprocal altruism. 
B)  companionate altruism. 
C)  personal altruism. 
D)  empathetic altruism.

Question 17

Every year at Thanksgiving, Than volunteers to serve dinner at the local homeless shelter. She explains that it doesn't take a lot of time and the people there are so grateful that it really makes her feel better about herself and puts her name on the volunteer list that appears in the newspaper at the end of the year. Than is probably helping, consistent with the

Accepted Answer

A)  empathy-altruism hypothesis. 
B)  negative-affect hypothesis. 
C)  self-serving-altruistic hypothesis. 
D)  egoistic model of helping.

Question 18

According to the textbook, all of the following are strategies for getting help, except

Accepted Answer

A)  identify one person and call to them directly. 
B)  give instructions on how the person should help. 
C)  ask people for information about their backgrounds. 
D)  clearly label the situation as an emergency.

Question 19

During a family get-together, Mitch's house caught fire. According to Berstein et al. (1994), who is Mitch most likely to help first?

Accepted Answer

A)  his aunt Gloria 
B)  his second-cousin Frank 
C)  his grandmother 
D)  his daughter Julie

Question 20

This model describes helping behaviour as a function of five distinct steps; a model referred to as

Accepted Answer

A)  step model. 
B)  decision-making process model. 
C)  cost-reward model. 
D)  process model.

Exam 13: Altruism and Prosocial Behaviour

Helping as a result of the physiological arousal from seeing someone in need of help and the calculation of the costs and rewards of providing help describes the

Socially rejected people are more likely to help others to feel better about themselves.

According to your textbook, the self-benefits of helping can be grouped into all of the following categories, except

If one is motivated to help another person to relieve his or her own concerns, this would be referred to as

People in individualistic cultures are less likely to ask for help and therefore less likely to receive help, compared to people in collectivist cultures.

People are motivated to help others in order to relieve their own negative feelings; a hypothesis known as ___-_ _____

Requiring students to do volunteer service as a graduation requirement is a good strategy for building life-long volunteer service.

The idea that we are motivated to help others that due to the expectation that they will then help us in return later on is referred to as _ _.

When a person helps another person with no thought of benefit to the self, we call it

Any behaviour that has the goal of helping another person is known as ____________.

The author suggests that ____________________ explains why conservatives tend to oppose spending on social programs while liberals tend to support it.

The idea that we have an obligation to help those who are in need of assistance, even if we have no expectation that we will ever receive help from them is referred to as norm of _.

Receiving help can actually make you feel inferior; for example the case of overhelping.

In relation to helping, what does overjustification refer to?

Rachel was happy to give Dan a ride to school one week while his car was being repaired because she felt that she now could ask Dan for a ride if her car broke down. Rachel is motivated to help Dan because of

According to the textbook, all of the following are strategies for getting help, except

During a family get-together, Mitch's house caught fire. According to Berstein et al. (1994) , who is Mitch most likely to help first?

This model describes helping behaviour as a function of five distinct steps; a model referred to as