Exam 12: Emotions, Stress, and Health

When Will sees other people crying he cries too and when he sees someone who is embarrassed, he feels embarrassed. Will would likely receive a high score on a measure of

Research on the relationship between personality traits and helping behavior revealed that

_____ is the vicarious experience of another's feelings and putting oneself in another's shoes.

Identify the steps in Darley and Latané's "decision tree" of helping. Based on this model, how could you increase your chances of getting someone to help you in an emergency?

Around the world, compared to non-religious people, all of the following are true of highly religious people EXCEPT

50-year-old Patty is in a car accident with her son, sister, and a friend. She has time to save herself and one other person. According to evolutionary psychology, who will Patty likely help?

When faced with potentially dangerous situations where strangers need help,

According to the social-exchange theory, which of the following is a behavior that is characterized by rewards that are external in nature?

The motive to increase another's welfare without conscious regard for one's self-interests defines

Solomon and Solomon (1978) found that bystanders who _____ were more likely to offer aid to a person.

The perception of certain individuals or groups as outside the boundary within which one applies moral values and rules of fairness is called

Compare and contrast Batson and Cialdini's research on genuine altruism.

Latané and Darley attempted to explain people's failure to intervene in cases like that of Kitty Genovese, a woman who was violently attacked, in terms of

According to researchers, which of the following is the correct order that leads us to good actions?

Latané and Darley (1968) had university students complete questionnaires in a small room, and then had smoke pour into the room from a wall vent. Students who were working _____ tended to notice the smoke in _____.

Jeanne and her friends from church have adopted several shut-ins (church members who are no longer able to attend services). Their actions are most likely to be based on the ____ norm.

Ben is highly disturbed by the screaming he hears from the street below his apartment. To help reduce his distress he goes to see if someone needs help. Ben's behavior seems to be motivated by

When people need our help, we are most likely to provide assistance if we attribute their need to

Katzev (1978) found that when people were reprimanded at a zoo for feeding unauthorized food to bears, they were _____ to help another person afterwards than if they had not been reprimanded.

The central notion of egoism is that