Psyc 315 - Child Psych - Chapter 14

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prosocial behavior

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voluntary beh intended to benefit another, such as helping, sharing, and comforting of others

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Moral judgments

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decisions that pertain to issues of right and wrong, fairness, and justice

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social conventional judgements

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decisions that pertain to customes or regulations intended to secure social coordination and social organization

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personal judgements

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decisions that refer to actions in which ind preferneces are the main consideration

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conscience

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an internal regulatory mechanism that increases the ind's ability to conform with standards of conduct accepted in his or her culture

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Altruistic motives

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heling others for reasons that initially include empathy or sympathy for others and at later ages, the desire to act in ways consistent with one's own conscience and moral principles

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empathy

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an emotional reaction to another's emotional state or condition that is similar to that other person's state or condition

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sympathy

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the feeling of concern for another person in reaction to that other person's emotional state or condition; othen an outcome of empathizing with another's negative emotion or situation

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agression

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behaviour aimed at harming or injuring others

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instrumental aggression

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agression motivated by the desire to obtain a concrete goal

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relational aggression

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agression that harms others by damaging their peer relationships

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reactive aggression

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emotionally driven, antagonistic agression sparked by one's perception that other people's motives are hostile

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proactive aggression

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tend to anticipate more positive social consequences for aggresion