PSYC 6421 Final Exam 2) What factors may influence whether people engage in prosocial or antisocial behavior? Please discuss both forms of behavior. Prosocial behavior involves behavior that aims to benefit other people. Conversely, antisocial behavior is behavior that aims to hurt others.…
This video gave detail on what motivation is and the things that make it up. Motivation is the reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way. Psychologist have broken motivation into four different theories: evolutionary perspective, drive-reduction, optimal arousal, Maslow's hierarchy of needs. For a while in the early 20th century, many believed behaviors were instincts but this so-called Instinct Theory was misguided, in part because the presence of a tendency doesn't always mean it's supposed to be there. Instincts are unpredictable, unlearned practices that have a settled example all through a species (evolutionary perspective).…
passage is about a special act in humans and other creatures called altruism. the passage defines many good things of such creature although the professor has refuted these ideas. first of all, the author describe a special characteristic of meerkatand says that they have to sacrifice their food for the safety of other fellow meekats but the professor refutes the idea and shares that the guard meerkat eat before every other meerkat than stands as a guard. so, in this way he benifits himself.…
After Ben’s reserves are used, water becomes a vital need for the Braggs. Randy remembers the water connected to the Henry’s home is “Artesian water, unlimited!” (Frank 147). With the cooperation of the Henry household, water is connected to the entire River Road development removing barriers and forming a new community (Frank 150). Without the generosity and help of the Henry family, the Braggs could easily have died without water.…
Altruism is behavior that only considers helping others, and may actually cause harm to the individual performing it. Altruism can be seen in the passage when Lauri picks up two of her workers to take them to work even though she doesn’t have to. A conjunctive task is a task that depends on the performance of all of its members. How well the task is completed depends on how well the weakest member does. In the passage, Lauri’s boss claims that the project Steve and Lauri are working on is a conjunctive task.…
The passage talks about Altruism, while providing two illustrations. On the flipside, owing to the discovery of new evidences, the lecture contradicts the passage. To begin with, the passage defines altruism as a type of behavior in which an animal sacrifices its own interest for that of another animal or group of animals. To support the point, instances of humans and meerkats were provided.…
Throughout American history, there have been people who commit mass atrocities that can only be described as serial killings. Most people believe that serial killers are these awkward or dissociative people who stand out. In reality, these people actually tend to blend in with society and have no tells that they have a monster lurking inside (A Serial Killer, 2017). Most of the serial killers that are known have had families, are involved in their communities, military veterans, and well-liked by people they know. Starting from the first serial killer H.H. Holmes in Chicago, to the D.C. sniper, there is always one thing that they have in common, motive.…
Martin Luther King Jr. states, “Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creativity altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.” In other words, each person has their own choices in regards of altruism. In the topic of altruism, most Americans tend to believe that altruism is a sense of act to help one another and get involved. Some people may believe that altruism is just worthless and idle. It leaves me on the question, “What do you have to do to be labeled as an altruistic person?”…
need not keep yours to them.” An example directly from Obama’s presidency would be Obama’s publically made announcement to close Guantanamo Bay, while still allowing the work of many “secret prisons”. (Politics Blog 2012) Another issue of Obama’s not keeping and going against his own word would be the example of how he views interrogation. Obama has criticized Bush’s administration for the use of inhumane torture, even though he has searched for newer and more “enhanced interrogation methods.”…
In the critique “Egoism and Altruism,” Louis P. Pojman strongly rejects the idea of Ayn Rand that everyone should have and egoist morality by explaining the “false dilemma” created between egoism and altruism. He explains that her idea of egoism stating that she believes “selfishness is a virtue and altruism is a vice.” He argues that while some egoist traits are morally necessary, such as self-love and self-interest, they should not be brought about or acted upon at the cost of someone else’s happiness. The idea that one ought to “love thy neighbor as yourself” means to treat everyone with the same respect and dignity that you treat yourself with, not to harm a stranger for your own happiness or joy. He argues against Rand’s theory by stating…
Altruism is an individual who commits unselfishness acts. There are three ways to increase helping behavior in American society by undoing the restraints on helping with modeling altruism, increasing feelings of responsibility, and teaching altruism. In a community where prosociality is common it benefits individuals. When there is emergencies bystanders can be seen as alienated, feeing apathy, and indifferent yet this is due because the presence of other bystanders. Bibb Latane and John Darley was able find his phenomenon in an experiment when staging creative emergencies.…
A dictionary definition basically states that a motivation is desire one has to do something. There are moral motivations such as out of loyalty, duty, or as a favor to someone, however there are also motivations that are more selfish. These motivations consist…
Altruism is helping others above all else, thinking of others before thinking of oneself. Haigh (2010) states the definition of altruism as the unselfish attention to the needs of others. (Haigh, 2010, p. 1402) Where does the concept of altruism come from? Is it something that is born, taught, or created through experience?…
“Human motivation, itself, is a complicated thing.” (Kira Salak) Truth be told, it is. Why do we do the things we do? What really motivates us? In some cases, it is our character traits that push us towards a daunting task or journey.…
Motivation is defined as a reason that one chooses to do something. Often times, motivation may be caused by a reward or a feeling that one gets from completing a task. Great satisfaction can result from something that requires a significant amount of work. There are two types of motivation: intrinsic and extrinsic. Intrinsic motivation is the pursuit of an activity for one 's own sake and extrinsic motivation is the pursuit of an activity for external reasons or rewards.…