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16 Cards in this Set
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Prosocial Behavior |
Any behaviour that has the intention of helping others |
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Altruism |
Helping without expectation of return/personal gain |
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Kinship Selection (evolutionary) |
The idea that we're more likely to help those we are genetically related to |
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Reciprocal Pro-Social Behaviour (evolutionary) |
People help others to increase the odds that those people will help them |
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Empathy (Personality) |
The ability to understand other people's perspectives and respond emotionally to other people's experiences |
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Moral Reasoning |
A personality factor that describes the extent to which a person's willingness to help depends on larger moral standards rather than the person's needs and the expected consequences for him or her of helping |
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Decision-making process model |
A model that describes helping behaviour as a function of five distinct steps(notice;recognize emergency;take responsibility;decide how to help;help) |
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Arousal/cost-reward model |
A model that describes helping behaviour as caused in part by the physiological arousal that people experience when they see someone in need of help and in part by their calculation of the costs and rewards of providing such help |
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Diffusion of responsibility |
the belief that other people present in a situation will assume responsibility, which contributes to the bystander effect |
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Bystander effect |
The situation whereby people are less likely to help in emergency situations when there are other people present than if the person who could help is alone, resulting in a decreased likelihood of help being given |
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Good mood effect |
when people are in a good mood, they are more likely to help |
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urban overload hypothesis |
the hypothesis that people who live in urban areas are constantly exposed to stimulation, which in turn leads them to decrease their awareness of their environment |
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Empathy-altruism hypothesis |
the idea that when we feel empathy for a person, we will help that person even if we incur a cost in doing so |
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negative-state relief hypothesis |
hypothesis that people are motivated to help others in order to relieve their own negative feelings |
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norm of reciprocity |
the idea that we should help those who are in need of assistance, because they will then help us in the future |
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norm of social responsibility |
the idea that we have an obligation to help those who are in need of assistance |
