Exam 10: Helping Others

Joey and Chandler are not related to each other,yet Chandler goes out of his way to leave work early so he can give Joey a ride to the airport.Ross,who is a scientist,suggests that he can account for Chandler's helping behavior____________________________using an evolutionary perspective.Which concept could he cite in doing so in this case?

Which observation best illustrates the conclusion that the norm of reciprocity can influence helping behavior?

Eleanor is asked to help the people who live on the other side of the city restore their block after it was burned down in a fire.It is most probable that she will help if______________the people on the other side of the city.

Many different factors contribute to the bystander effect.Which factor does not contribute directly to the bystander effect?

One reason that perceived similarity may increase helping is that it

Research on attractiveness and helping indicates that

Bob was an active alcoholic for 8 years,during which time he lost his wife and custody of his daughter.Now that he has been clean and sober for 3 years,he is a sponsor for several other people who are struggling to stop drinking.He says that helping others makes him feel better about the things that he lost while he was drinking.Bob's actions to____________________________help others recover from addiction are driven______________by the______________model of helping.

When people think they will be scorned by others for failing to help,audience inhibition

What explanation does research give for the finding that volunteers with egoistic motives tend to remain active volunteers longer than those with more altruistic motives?

Evolutionary perspectives on helping behavior suggest that individuals

Cosmo is walking home on a busy downtown street when he notices a woman lying on the sidewalk who appears to have lost consciousness.Which obstacle to helping would best explain why he did not interpret the event as an emergency?

Feeling good can lead to increased helping behavior because

In their famous Good Samaritan study,Darley and Batson (1973)found that

Kevin asks Winnie to drive him to the airport.Though Winnie doesn't really want to,she agrees because Kevin loaned her money last week.Winnie agreed to help because of the norm of

Which combination of traits has been shown to be essential to helping?

Research on people's willingness to help individuals with AIDS indicates that we tend to be more likely to offer assistance

Describe how the presence of bystanders affects helping.

"Good Samaritan" laws

Research by Garcia et al.(2002)and Stencil & Greitemeyer (2014)suggests that imagining you are in a group with other people

Charlene volunteers one afternoon each week at the local soup kitchen because she is genuinely concerned about the welfare of the less fortunate citizens in her community.Charlene's behavior would best be characterized as