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Acts that are positively viewed by society.
Question 2
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Acts that intentionally benefit someone else.
Question 3
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A special form of helping behaviour, sometimes costly, that shows concern for fellow human beings and is performed without expectation of personal gain.
Question 4
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Views complex social behaviour as adaptive, helping the individual, kin and the species as a whole to survive.
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Evolutionary Social Psychology (p. 520)
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Social Learning Theory (p. 528)
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Specific Personality Traits (p. 537-538)
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Social responsibility norm (p. 548)
Question 5
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Cooperative behaviour benefits the cooperator as well as others; a defector will do worse than a cooperator.
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Those who cooperate are biased towards blood relatives because it helps propagate their own genes; the lack of direct benefit to the cooperator indicates altruism.
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Ability to feel another person’s experiences; identifying with and experiencing another person’s emotions, thoughts and attitudes.
Question 8
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In attending to an emergency, the bystander calculates the perceived costs and benefits of providing help compared with those associated with not helping.
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Bystander-Calculus Model (p. 522)
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Physiological Arousal (p. 523)
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Evaluating the Consequences (p. 523)
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Attribution (p. 529)
Question 9
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What are the three steps in Jane Piliavin's bystander-calculus model of helping?
Question 10
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Empathetic physiological reaction response. Greater arousal leads to greater helping likelihood.
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Physiological Arousal (p. 523)
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Labelling the Arousal (p. 523)
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Kin Selection (p. 520)
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Specific Personality Traits (p. 537-538)
Question 11
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The view championed by Bandura that human social behaviour is not innate but learnt from appropriate models.
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Social Learning Theory (p. 528)
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Modelling (p. 526)
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Specific Personality Traits (p. 537-538)
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Social responsibility norm (p. 548)
Question 12
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Tendency for a person to reproduce the actions, attitudes and emotional responses exhibited by a real-life or symbolic model. Also called observational learning.
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Modelling (p. 526)
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Attribution (p. 529)
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Altruism (p. 519)
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Empathy (p. 522)
Question 13
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Acquiring a behaviour after observing that another person was rewarded for it.
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Learning by Vicarious Experience (p. 528)
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Just-World Hypothesis (p. 529)
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Evaluating the Consequences (p. 523)
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Competence (p. 540-541)
Question 14
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According to Lerner and Miller, people need to believe that the world is a just place where they get what they deserve. As evidence of undeserved suffering undermines this belief, people may conclude that victims deserve their fate.
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Just-World Hypothesis (p. 529)
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Bystander Effect (p. 530)
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Social responsibility norm (p. 548)
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Bystander Apathy (p. 532)
Question 15
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People who feel good are much more likely to help someone in need than are people who feel bad.
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Mood (p. 535-536)
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Specific Personality Traits (p. 537-538)
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Attachment Style (p. 538)
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Size of Home Town (p. 538-539)
Question 16
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People who scored high on the attributes of agreeableness, self-transcendence values, empathic self-efficacy, ability to forgive, and capacity to feel embarrassed were more likely to engage in prosocial behaviour.
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Specific Personality Traits (p. 537-538)
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Mood (p. 535-536)
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Attachment Style (p. 538)
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Size of Home Town (p. 538-539)
Question 17
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Descriptions of the nature of people’s close relationships, thought to be established in childhood.
Question 18
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People from small-town backgrounds were more likely to help than those from larger cities.
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Size of Home Town (p. 538-539)
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Attachment Style (p. 538)
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Social responsibility norm (p. 548)
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Diffusion of Responsibility (p. 532)
Question 19
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Often involves an unusual event, can vary in nature, is unplanned and requires a quick response.
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Emergency situation (p. 530)
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Attend to Event (p. 531)
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Assume Responsibility (p. 531)
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Decide what can be done (p. 531)
Question 20
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People are less likely to help in an emergency when they are with others than when alone. The greater the number, the less likely it is that anyone will help.
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Bystander Effect (p. 530)
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Emergency situation (p. 530)
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Bystander intervention (p. 529)
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Bystander Apathy (p. 532)
Question 21
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The idea that we should help people who are dependent and in need. It is contradicted by another norm that discourages interfering in other people’s lives.
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Social responsibility norm (p. 548)
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Bystander Apathy (p. 532)
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Diffusion of Responsibility (p. 532)
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Specific Personality Traits (p. 537-538)
Question 22
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This occurs when an individual breaks out of the role of a bystander and helps another person in an emergency.
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Bystander intervention (p. 529)
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Bystander Effect (p. 530)
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Bystander Apathy (p. 532)
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Emergency situation (p. 530)
Question 23
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A theory proposing that the presence of others can inhibit people from responding to an emergency: the more people, the slower the response.
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Latané and Darley’s Cognitive Model (p. 530)
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Social Learning Theory (p. 528)
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Bystander-Calculus Model (p. 522)
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Evolutionary Social Psychology (p. 520)
Question 24
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What are the four steps to Latane and Darley's cognitive model.
Question 25
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Do we even notice an event where helping may be required, such as an accident?
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Attend to Event (p. 531)
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Event Defined as Emergency (p. 531)
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Assume Responsibility (p. 531)
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Decide what can be done (p. 531)
Question 26
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How do we interpret the event?
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Event Defined as Emergency (p. 531)
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Attend to Event (p. 531)
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Assume Responsibility (p. 531)
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Decide what can be done (p. 531)
Question 27
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Do we accept personal responsibility for helping?
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Assume Responsibility (p. 531)
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Decide what can be done (p. 531)
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Event Defined as Emergency (p. 531)
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Attend to Event (p. 531)
Question 28
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What do we decide to do?
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Decide what can be done (p. 531)
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Assume Responsibility (p. 531)
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Event Defined as Emergency (p. 531)
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Attend to Event (p. 531)
Question 29
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Explanations for why people tend not to help when in a group.
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Bystander Apathy (p. 532)
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Diffusion of Responsibility (p. 532)
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Bystander intervention (p. 529)
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Bystander Effect (p. 530)
Question 30
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Tendency of an individual to assume that others will take responsibility (as a result, no one does). This is a hypothesised cause of the bystander effect.
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Diffusion of Responsibility (p. 532)
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Bystander Apathy (p. 532)
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Bystander Effect (p. 530)
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Social responsibility norm (p. 548)
Question 31
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The dread of acting inappropriately or of making a foolish mistake witnessed by others. The desire to avoid ridicule inhibits effective responses to an emergency by members of a group.
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Fear of Social Blunders (p. 532)
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Diffusion of Responsibility (p. 532)
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Social responsibility norm (p. 548)
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Bystander Effect (p. 530)