PSYC 2740 Final Exam Questions And Answers
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Helping ANS✔✔ Social connection underlies motivation to help
Prosocial behaviors ANS✔✔ Actions intended to benefit others
The "selfish gene" ANS✔✔ Evolutionary perspective emphasizes the survival
of the fittest individual's genes, not of the individual
Kin selection ANS✔✔ Preferential helping of genetic relatives, which results
int he greater likelihood that genes held in common will survive
Reciprocal altruism ANS✔✔ We help because we think we will get something
out of it - more likely to receive help from the other in return
Indirect reciprocity ANS✔✔ A kind of reciprocal altruism in which an
individual who helps someone becomes more likely to receive help from
someone else
Empathy ANS✔✔ Understanding or vicariously experiencing another
individual's perspective and feeling sympathy and compassion for that
individual
Perspective-taking ANS✔✔ Cognitive aspect based on using the imagination
(type of empathy)
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Empathetic concern ANS✔✔ Emotional component that involves other-
oriented feelings (type of empathy)
Egoistic ANS✔✔ Motivated by the desire to improve one's own welfare
Altruistic ANS✔✔ Motivated by the desire to
Empathy-altruism hypothesis ANS✔✔ The proposition that empathic concern
for a person in need produces an altruistic motive for helping (Bateson's
model) - true altruism occurs when the focus is on the other person
Courageous resistance ANS✔✔ Providing sustained and deliberate help in
the face of potentially enormous costs
Default is to help ANS✔✔ Acting quickly, on instinct, often produces more
helping and cooperative behaviors than when there is time to consider costs
and benefits
Bystander effect ANS✔✔ The effect whereby the presence of others inhibits
helping - happens online too
Five steps to helping in an emergency ANS✔✔ 1. Noticing 2. Interpreting 3.
Taking responsibility 4. Deciding how to help 5. Providing help
Pluralistic ignorance ANS✔✔ The state in which people in a group
mistakenly think that their own individual thoughts, feelings, or behaviors
are different from those of the others in the group
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