Social Psych Ch. 10

Front 1

prosocial behaviors

Back 1

actions intended to help others

Front 2

kinship selection

Back 2

preferential helping of genetic relatives, so that genes held in common will survive

Front 3

arousal: cost-reward model

Back 3

the proposition that people react to emergency situations by acting in the most cost-effective way to reduce the arousal of shock and alarm

Front 4

altruistic

Back 4

motivated by the desire to increase another's welfare

Front 5

egotistic

Back 5

motivated by the desire to increase one's own welfare

Front 6

empathy-altruism hypothesis

Back 6

the proposition that emphatic concern for a person in need produces an altruistic motive for helping

Front 7

negative state relief model

Back 7

the proposition that people help others in order to counteract their own feelings of sadness

Front 8

bystander effect

Back 8

the effect whereby the presence of others inhibits helping

Front 9

pluralistic ignorance

Back 9

the state in which people mistakenly believe that their own thoughts and feelings are different from those of others, even though everyone's behavior is the same

Front 10

diffusion of responsibility

Back 10

the belief that others will or should take the responsibility for providing assistance to a person in need

Front 11

audience inhibition

Back 11

reluctance to help for fear of making a bad impression on observers

Front 12

good mood effect

Back 12

the effect whereby a good mood increases helping behavior

Front 13

social norm

Back 13

a general rule of conduct reflecting standards of social approval and disaproval

Front 14

norm of social responsibility

Back 14

a moral standard emphsizing that people should help those who need assistance

Front 15

norm of self-interest

Back 15

the sense in individualistic cultures that people's attitudes and behaviors are, and should be, highly influenced by their self-interest

Front 16

threat-to-self-esteem model

Back 16

the theory that reactions to receiving assistance depend on whether help is perceived as supportive or threatening