Exam 10: Helping Others

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 of the following obstacles to helping would best explain why he did not interpret the event as an emergency?

According to Latané and Darley's (1970)five-step model of helping, analysis of costs and rewards occurs at what step?

People are less likely to notice an emergency if they

Helene spends a few weeks helping the victims of a tornado because she believes that people should help others, especially those who deserve assistance.Helene's thoughts regarding her actions are consistent with the norm of

Darley and Latané's (1968)"epileptic seizure" study demonstrated that

Explain how empathy affects helping.

Warneken and Tomasello (2006)studied the helping behavior of 18-month-old infants with an adult experimenter.They found that

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?

Helping behavior is adaptive from an evolutionary standpoint if

Fiona needs to get people to fill out her survey.The likelihood that people will help Fiona will increase if she approaches all of the following people except those who

An important element of helping in Spanish and Latin-American cultures is called

Online file-sharing websites depend on the idea of

Research by Batson on the empathy-altruism hypothesis suggests that

Levine and others (2005)conducted an experiment in which a "jogger" was wearing a t-shirt that was either the same as the participant's favorite soccer team, the t-shirt of a rival team, or a neutral t-shirt.The "jogger" fell in front of the participant, appearing to sustain an injury.Participants were

Yablo and Field (2007)found that Thai students had a high rate of self-reported altruistic behaviors.Which of the following reasons did they cite as the most important one to explain this phenomenon?

Women are more likely than men to help others in situations involving

Research suggests that if you are soliciting the help of strangers at the mall, you are most likely to be successful if you

Simon's decision whether or not to help someone is based primarily on whether that person seems to deserve assistance.Simon is motivated by concerns about

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

The cognitive component of empathy that involves seeing the world through someone else's eyes is called